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A Virtual CEO reveals how to blaze a path of professional and personal success by playing the game by your own rules.

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What would you be willing to do for the rest of your life...? It's a question most of us consider only hypothetically-opting instead to "do what we have to do" to earn a living. But in the critically acclaimed bestseller "The Monk and the Riddle", entrepreneurial sage Randy Komisar asks us to answer it for real. The book's timeless advice - to make work pay not just in cash, but in experience, satisfaction, and joy - will be embraced by anyone who wants success to come not just from what they do, but from who they are.At once a fictional tale of Komisar's encounters with a would-be entrepreneur and a personal account of how Komisar found meaning not in work's rewards but in work itself, the book illustrates what's wrong with the mainstream thinking that we should sacrifice our lives to make a living. Described by Fortune.com as "part personal essay, part fictional narrative and part meditation on the nature of work and life," "The Monk and the Riddle" is essential reading on the art of creating a life while making a living. 'Belongs in a category by itself...The best thing I've read all year' - "San Francisco Examiner". 'A timely book' - "USA Today". 'A self-help manual and business fable rolled into one' - "The Times, London".

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  • Title The Monk and the Riddle: The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Life
  • Author Randy Kosimar
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2001-09-01
  • ISBN 9781578516445 / 1578516447
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.35 x 5.48 x 0.56 in (21.21 x 13.92 x 1.42 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Entrepreneurship - United States, Businesspeople - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99057378
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Randy Komisar is a Virtual CEO who has worked with companies such as WebTV and TiVo. He was CEO of LucasArts Entertainment and Crystal Dynamics, CFO of GO, and one of the founders of Claris Corporation.
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