A blueprint for thriving in your job and building a career by applying the lessons of Silicon Valley’s most innovative entrepreneurs.

The career escalator is jammed at every level. Unemployment rates are sky-high. Creative disruption is shaking every industry. Global competition for jobs is fierce. The employer-employee pact is over and traditional job security is a thing of the past.

Here, LinkedIn cofounder and chairman Reid Hoffman and author Ben Casnocha show how to accelerate your career in today’s competitive world. The key is to manage your career as if it were a start-up business : a living, breathing, growing start-up of you .

Why? Start-ups - and the entrepreneurs who run them - are nimble. They invest in themselves. They build their professional networks. They take intelligent risks. They make uncertainty and volatility work to their advantage.

These are the very same skills professionals need to get ahead today.

This book isn’t about cover letters or resumes. Instead, you will learn the best practices of Silicon Valley start-ups, and how to apply these entrepreneurial strategies to your career. Whether you work for a giant multinational corporation, a small local business, or launching your own venture, you need to know how to:

* Adapt your career plans as you change, the people around you change, and industries change.

* Develop a competitive advantage to win the best jobs and opportunities.

* Strengthen your professional network by building powerful alliances and maintaining a diverse mix of relationships. * Find the unique breakout opportunities that massively accelerate career growth.

* Take proactive risks to become more resilient to industry tsunamis.

* Tap your network for information and intelligence that help you make smarter decisions.

A revolutionary new guide to thriving in today's fractured world of work, the strategies in this book will help you survive and thrive and achieve your boldest professional ambitions. The Start-Up of You empowers you to become the CEO of your career and take control of your future.

裏德·霍夫曼，畢業於斯坦福大學和牛津大學，是舉世聞名的企業傢、投資人士。入選2013福布斯全球富豪榜前500名。

他是世界上最大的職業社交網LinkedIn閤創人兼執行董事長。該網絡會員突破兩億，且每1秒鍾就有3名新會員注冊。裏德之前任PayPal執行副總裁兼創立理事。他還是著名的矽榖風險投資公司Greylock的閤夥人，也是100多傢技術公司，包括Facebook和Zynga的早期投資人。

擁有龐大人際網絡的裏德被譽為矽榖英雄，除瞭因為矽榖最成功的公司背後都站著霍夫曼的身影，還在於他樹立瞭創業傢互相幫助的典範。在矽榖的創業者中流傳著一句話：“你和裏德·霍夫曼聊過嗎？”裏德在會見他人的時候，也都會問：“我能幫你忙嗎？”

深度理解技術變革，多層次的人性溝通，這兩大能力讓裏德·霍夫曼成為網絡時代的大贏傢。而如何感知並利用信息時代的商業趨勢，他用《至關重要的關係》為你解答！

本·卡斯諾瓦，優秀的企業傢、作傢。他曾經為《新聞周刊》撰稿，並在CNN、《早間秀》以及CNBC擔任過嘉賓。他被《商業周刊》譽為“全美最棒的青年企業傢”之一。