Description
Book SynopsisLife is too short to just come in for the paycheque
Let's face it, you work for the best years of your life and spend most of your waking hours on the job, so make sure you are energized, fulfilled and buzzing.
Switched On will help you leap outside your comfort zone and awaken your creativity.
Blast through the old thinking
Switched On shows you how to think like an entrepreneur - have ideas, spot the opportunities, see the future and make things happen. The future belongs to fresh thinkers, so turn your receptors on and get ready to bring the real you to work.
They'll love you for it
Go on, unleash yourself - you'll be surprised at how indispensable you become. You have it in you - you just need to switch it on
'Not all of us can be great entrepreneurs but all of us can be innovative and enterprising in whatever role we perform. This book is a great guide and an inspiration on how to achieve this' Miles Templeman, Director General, Institute of Directors.
Trade Review‘Switched On proposes eight entrepreneurial habits to make jobs more enjoyable, such as…committing 100 per cent to your role.' (Financial Times, August 2010). ‘…uses Hashemi's experiences with Coffee Republic…to explain the entrepreneurial mindset, discussing what it takes to be a self-starter…' (Gulf Life, August 2010). ‘…[an] easy read…has wide application to all types and levels of employee.' (Supply Management, August 2010). ‘[Hashemi] believes that, as an integral part of life, work “should be fun, not a weighty counterbalance to it". (Sunday Times, August 2010).
Table of ContentsA Letter from the Author.
What Does Being Switched On Mean?
The 8 Habits of a Switched On Mindset.
Habit 1 Believing Anyone Can Do It.
Habit 2 Putting Yourself in Your Customers' Shoes.
Habit 3 Getting Out of the Office.
Habit 4 The Importance of Being Clueless.
Habit 5 Prototyping.
Habit 6 Notching Up Nos.
Habit 7 Bootstrapping.
Habit 8 Taking 100% of Yourself to Work.
Afterword 149
Sahar Hashemi's Story.
References.
Acknowledgements.
