The Gig Economy: The Complete Guide to Getting Better Work, Taking More Time Off, and Financing the Life You Want
Written by Diane Mulcahy
Narrated by Marguerite Gavin
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About this audiobook
The Gig Economy is your guide to this uncertain but ultimately rewarding world. Succeeding in it starts with shifting gears to recognize that only you control your future. Next is leveraging your skills, knowledge, and network to create your own career trajectory-one immune to the whims of an employer.
Packed with research, exercises, and anecdotes, this eye-opening book supplies strategies-ranging from the professional to the personal-to help you:
Construct a life based on your priorities and vision of success • Cultivate connections without networking • Create your own security • Take more time off • Build flexibility into your financial life • Face your fears by reducing risk • Prepare for the future • And much more
Layoffs… recessions…Corporate jobs are not only unstable- they're increasingly scarce. It's time to take charge of your own career and lead the life you actually want.
Diane Mulcahy
DIANE MULCAHY is a Senior Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation and an Adjunct Lecturer at Babson College, where she teaches "Entrepreneurship and the Gig Economy," a popular MBA course that Forbes.com named one of the top ten most innovative business school classes in the country. Her work in venture capital and entrepreneurship has been featured on NPR and in the Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, Fortune, Forbes, The New Yorker, The Economist, and other national media.
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Reviews for The Gig Economy
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5the future of Jobs!! the gig economy opened a lot of doors for me!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Great introduction to what the gig economy is about. I expected more but that more will come from the world as it matures this economh of gig workers...
Overall a good read and definitely life changing perspectives..
Would love to read the phase 2 of this book as the Gig Economy evolves - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very good look into a not so distant future
The Gig Economy was a very enjoyable read. It fit exactly with what I believe is true about the way the world of work is changing. Full time jobs are not as secure as they used to be, and for good reason too.
It embraces this change, and shares what we can do as individuals to survive and thrive in a changing economy.
This is exactly the type of book any worker in today's economy should pick up and read. You may not agree with everything within, but the writing is on the wall that things are indeed changing. Do you want to be left behind?