MBA1138 Must Read: It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson

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Omar Zenhom

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🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Excessive stress is not a requirement of entrepreneurship. At least that’s what Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, authors of this week’s Must-Read book for entrepreneurs think. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work is a radical treatise on the dangers — and utter uselessness — of running yourself and your team ragged. Their company, Basecamp, prides itself on a healthy approach to the work/life balance.

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA show or we know how much your business means to you.
0:14.8	That's why we deliver daily 10 minute business lessons for the real world.
0:18.9	I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar Zenholm.
0:22.2	I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business
0:25.8	training and community online.
0:28.3	And today's episode is a must-read episode.
0:31.0	On our must-read episodes I share with you a book that I've read that has greatly influenced me and impacted me as an entrepreneur.
0:37.0	I share with you its takeaways and why you should read it too.
0:40.0	Today's must read is, it doesn't have to be crazy at work by Jason
0:45.1	freed and David Hanamie Hanson. Jason freed and D.H. are the founders of
0:50.8	Bas Camp. A very popular team management tool on the internet.
0:56.0	They are New York Times best-selling authors.
0:58.2	They have two other books that I reviewed here on the show.
1:01.8	One is called Rework and the other one's called remote. But this
1:05.2	time around this book is a little bit different. They pull back the curtain and
1:09.9	talk about how they run their own company.
1:13.0	They share a lot of interesting things that most people do not share.
1:17.0	How they interview, how they do payments and increments,
1:20.0	how they deal with holidays and days off, their development cycles, their team culture, their
1:25.5	transparency, all that stuff, all the things that we all want to know when we're building
1:30.6	a company.
1:31.6	I actually pre-ordered this book before it came out because I couldn't
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