Business Model You

1 Diagram Learn to understand and describe workplaces --and your own work Chapter 1 The Key to Workplace Satisfaction and the Cure for Workplace Suffering 15 A Bigger View of Work | Why Business Models? | Changing Times, Changing Models | People Must Change, Too | Work Models for Everyone | An Ecology of Work | Career "Planning" Is Dead: Long Live Work Modeling Chapter 2 To Understand Your Work, Understand Your Workplace 23 The Business Model Canvas | Every Organization Has a Business Model | Who Is the Customer? | What Jobs Do Customers Need to Have Done? | The Harsh Truth | Why Pictures? | The Nine Building Blocks | A Way to Understand the World of Work | Systems Thinking for the Rest of Us | Thinking Ahead Is Good, Thinking Outward Is Better | The Enterprise Service Model Canvas | Next Steps for You Chapter 3 Next, Diagram How You Work 65 The Work Model Canvas | Your First Work Model: Drafting Time! | The Power of "Third Objects" to Help You--and Others | Self-Check Your As-Is Model 2 Reflect Revisit your work model and consider parts that need to change Chapter 4 Now, Identify "Hotspots" and Refine Your Professional Identity 93 Time for Reflection | "Hotspots": What They Are and How to Identify Them | Daughters and Fathers | How to Spot Pain or Potential | Deal with Hotspots Using the Three Questions | How to Navigate Career Space | Your "North Star" for a Lifelong Career Journey | Define Your Superpower | How to Define Your Professional Identity | A Message to the Unsure | The "Passion" Myth | Design Your Life | Three Things You Can "Make" | Avoid Gravity Problems | Stuck? Try This | Before Turning the Page, Ask Yourself . 3 Revise Re-diagram your work model Chapter 5 Revise Your Work Model 125 A New Role for a New Customer | How to Revise Your Work Model | The Power of Prototyping | Different Stages, Different Models | Calculating Costs and Consequences | Ask Diagnostic Questions | Modify Blocks and Evaluate Effects | Re-Diagram Your Model | Should You Become

"We find Business Model You highly useful for training early-career employees how to work effectively within organizations."
--Marcel Leijen, Director, Experis Academy (ManpowerGroup)
 
"The Work Model Canvas is the key tool for helping our age 50+ clients design new later-life careers. It consistently inspires previously unimagined possibilities for meaningful new careers."
--Tim Lybarger, Founder and Executive Director, EncoreNEO
 
"The Service Model from Business Model You is an incredible tool for visualizing complex healthcare environments--it's enabled me to grasp the value of my organizational role and successfully navigate career transitions."
--Dr. James Heilman, Emergency Physician and Health Care Executive
 
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--Julia Sammann, Business Coach
 
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--Randi Millard, Founder, Learner2Earner
 
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--Dana Bjarnason, Vice President and Chief Nursing Executive, Oregon Health Sciences University
 
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--Steve Blank, co-author of The Startup Owner's Manual and Four Steps to the Epiphany