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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
Very quick read full of good ideas, but short on practical steps to achieve the goal they're searching for. Many of the ideas they espouse seem like great ways to reduce stress and hopefully make more of your time at work, but often the path from where your company or team is to their goal feels almost insurmountable and sometimes like you'd need to be the CEO just to enact that sort of change.
To some extent, the entire book felt a little like an extended recruiting pitch for Basecamp (the author's company).
To some extent, the entire book felt a little like an extended recruiting pitch for Basecamp (the author's company).
Really interesting insight into the unorthodox ways in which the Basecamp founders run their businesses. Hard to imagine how to implement into most other work cultures that wouldn’t be a full and radical overhaul. Inspiring nonetheless!
I have mixed feelings about this book.
Overall, the value I received from reading the book justified the time and cost. It was a quick and easy read that prompted me to examine some of my own business practices. I'll likely reference it again in the future.
I particularly like how it challenges the status quo and encourages the reader to question the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of common business practices. The advice it dishes out is very much to the point instead of being shaded in niceties. And it was refreshing to inhabit a perspective that's contrary to the conventional wisdom that has become all too cliché and isn't always questioned as much as it needs to be.
My main criticism of the book is that it's too focused on Basecamp's story and internal practices. I think the authors could have made more of an effort to relate to a wider range of businesses and scenarios.
I've been following Basecamp since their early days and, while it's no longer my primary project management solution, I use it regularly with one of the communities that I'm involved in. I think that one of the reasons that Basecamp is so successful is because they were a very early player in this industry. They built up (and to their credit, kept) a strong customer base during a time where there were very few comparable solutions to choose from.
A similar business that recently opened its doors could easily get lost in the noise and may not even have a chance to practice many of the strategies presented in the book. Some acknowledgement of how the landscape has changed over the years and the challenges that new businesses face would have made the book more relevant to more people.
Overall, the value I received from reading the book justified the time and cost. It was a quick and easy read that prompted me to examine some of my own business practices. I'll likely reference it again in the future.
I particularly like how it challenges the status quo and encourages the reader to question the effectiveness (or ineffectiveness) of common business practices. The advice it dishes out is very much to the point instead of being shaded in niceties. And it was refreshing to inhabit a perspective that's contrary to the conventional wisdom that has become all too cliché and isn't always questioned as much as it needs to be.
My main criticism of the book is that it's too focused on Basecamp's story and internal practices. I think the authors could have made more of an effort to relate to a wider range of businesses and scenarios.
I've been following Basecamp since their early days and, while it's no longer my primary project management solution, I use it regularly with one of the communities that I'm involved in. I think that one of the reasons that Basecamp is so successful is because they were a very early player in this industry. They built up (and to their credit, kept) a strong customer base during a time where there were very few comparable solutions to choose from.
A similar business that recently opened its doors could easily get lost in the noise and may not even have a chance to practice many of the strategies presented in the book. Some acknowledgement of how the landscape has changed over the years and the challenges that new businesses face would have made the book more relevant to more people.
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Interesting and light read. This book has a lot of insights about how to run a company that doesn’t drive its employees crazy and burned out. It’s a good book for most people that work in consulting these days.
A lot of good advice. I think the “chapters” (each has 2 pages) could be bigger and go a little more into the details of how they could accomplish those things at Basecamp.
A lot of good advice. I think the “chapters” (each has 2 pages) could be bigger and go a little more into the details of how they could accomplish those things at Basecamp.
Overall, I liked it very much. Some ideas, approaches were quite new for me. Just can't think but wonder, which statements from the book will no longer be true in the near future and to see just any shortcomings of Basecamp. It's pictured as the perfect model, but I can't keep myself from doubting it.
Reads like a series of brief blog posts which makes it feel quick and concise but in the downside the authors make a lot of declarations about how things are without providing a whole lot of context as to why or how they're made to work.
I wish I worked someplace that cared about its employees. :(
Truly shows capitalism has no reason to be like that.