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Soloing: Reaching Life's Everest (Paperback)
by Harriet Rubin (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Random House Business Books; New Ed edition (1 Feb 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099410222
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099410225
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 223,170 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Book Description
The author of The Princessa now provides a radical, inspiring, high-energy manifesto and guidebook for everyone who is comtemplating throwing off the security blanket of corporate life. Soloing is work that defines not just what you do, but who you are. Soloing means ‘being complete in oneself’. From the 1950s to the 70s, a person who wanted to make a difference joined a company. From the 80s onwards they started a company. Today organisations are a pair of concrete boots. To go far, you have to make the journey on your own two feet.What do you do when you reach the top of a 40 foot pole? You keep on climbing without the pole. Climbing a pole is hard. Climbing without a pole is harder. It’s exhilarating. It’s soloing!

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A guidebook for those wishing to leave a corporate job and start their own business. It contains advice on tax and benefits that has been customised for the UK.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Autobiography of an Editor Changing Careers, 18 Dec 1999
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Be sure you know what kind of book Soloing is before you read it. If you are looking for a business book with lots of how-to advice on how to go from being an employee to having your own one-person organization, you will probably be disappointed in this book. On the other hand, if you are interested in what life is like for the most successful business editor of all time as she strikes out on her own as an author, personality and consultant, you are in for a wonderful treat. Harriet Rubin has an effective, spare writing style that makes for easy reading, making the pleasure even greater. The best part of this book is when she describes the many psychological stalls that kept her from making this move sooner, and delay her progress after she makes the move. If you enjoy learning more about a person's psychology in making a change than practical advice on what you should do, this is a superb book and one you will enjoy. If you dislike psychological perspective, avoid this book at any cost. Ms. Rubin's advice is quite good on several fronts. She clearly understands the techniques of networking at a high level, and if you will be doing the same, you will find her advice to be excellent. In fact, if you are about to follow her exact career path, leaving publishing for a writing, etc. career, the book is probably a good best practice study for you. Having established my own consulting firm 22 years ago after having been a corporate executive, I was attracted to the book because Peter Drucker had recommended Ms. Rubin to me as a good thinker. I also read her book, The Princessa, and found her perspective be somewhat unusual and interesting in both cases. As her experience expands as a problem-solver and her skills grow for analysis, her future books will become even more valuable. I look forward to reading them as they are published. Finally, if you just like an entertaining story of how we can all be more than we are and achieving that can bring meaning and joy, I recommend this book as well.
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