With the right mindset and insight, anyone can become a millionaire. Are you tired of just paying bills until you die? Are you wasting your life at a job that doesn't make you fulfilled or financially secure? Then Future Proofing You: Twelve Truths for Creating Opportunity, Maximizing Wealth, and Controlling Your Destiny in an Uncertain World is for you. In this life-changing book, celebrated author and entrepreneur Jay Samit, who's worked with such visionaries as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Reid Hoffman, and hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, shares the key understandings and step-by-step process for becoming rich and never needing another job again. To prove the power of his 12 Truths, Samit also details the journey of how he mentored a broke millennial with these principles and empowered him to go from being on welfare to becoming a self-made millionaire in one year. Building upon the principles in his internationally acclaimed book Disrupt You, Samit explains:
How to identify an idea and market to start your business How to build a virtual company with little or no capital The latest free software tools for managing your business Ways to get a piece of a trillion-dollar opportunity bigger than mobile How to harness the three primary fears of others to generate more sales Strategies for finding the right mentors to accelerate your success Techniques to structure any deal for creating recurring revenue and lasting wealth This book is perfect for anyone who is tired of jobs with no security, hopes to truly realize their professional and personal potential, and is looking for a way to build a better life for them and their family. Future Proofing You also belongs on the bookshelves of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs everywhere who hope to inspire their teams to become something greater than what they already are.
By:
Jay Samit
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 240mm,
Width: 159mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 458g
ISBN: 9781119772064
ISBN 10: 1119772060
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 05 March 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword xi Introduction 1 How Do You Go about Future Proofing You? 4 Part I The Twelve Truths 7 Chapter 1 The Growth Mindset 9 Truth #1 – You Must Have a Growth Mindset 10 How Do So Many Fail in a Land So Rich with Opportunity? 10 Job Security is a Myth 12 Wealth Comes from Creating Money, Not Earning and Saving It 13 Fostering a Growth Mindset 16 Six Techniques for Developing a Growth Mindset 19 Chapter 1.5 The Future Proofing You Experiment 27 Rules for the Future Proofing You Experiment 28 Finding a Mentee 29 Chapter 2 Leveraging Obstacles for Success 37 Truth #2 – Obstacles Are Opportunities in Disguise 38 Finding Problems to Solve 39 Seven Steps for Problem Solving 43 What Problem Was Vin Clancy Going to Solve? 47 Vin’s Million-Dollar Idea 50 Chapter 3 Harnessing Fear to Your Advantage 53 Truth #3 – Fear is Good 54 Fear Inaction More than Action 57 Overcoming the Fear of No Funding 58 Overcoming the Fear of Going Broke 60 Proven Technique for Tackling Doubt 63 Harnessing the Three Primary Fears of Others 65 Chapter 4 Embracing Failure as Part of the Journey 71 Truth #4 – Failure is Great 72 Four Approaches to Embrace Failure 74 Reducing Your Chances of Failing 76 Chapter 5 Igniting Your Superpower by Applying What Makes You Unique 81 Truth #5 – Your Unique Superpower Makes You Successful 82 Identifying Your Kryptonite 90 Chapter 6 Turning Perseverance into Passion 95 Truth #6 – Passion Makes You Unstoppable 96 Four Questions for Cultivating Passion 101 Six Techniques for Maintaining Passion 104 Chapter 7 Don’t Fly Solo: Finding the Right Mentor for Each Phase of Your Career 111 Truth #7 – You Can’t Go It Alone 112 Three Ways to Find a Mentor Using LinkedIn 116 Building a Network of Mentors 118 Finding a Partner 120 Using Mentorship to Build Your Team 121 Upscaling Your Team 123 Chapter 8 Everything is a Tech Startup. Yes, Everything! 127 Truth #8 – Everything is a Tech Startup 128 Time Management is a Competitive Edge 132 Three Tips for Increasing Productivity in a Digital World 133 Vin’s Top 22 Growth-Hacking Tools 135 Chapter 9 Filling the Void 141 Truth #9 – You Must Fill a Void 142 Mortar and Use Case Voids 143 Cross-Pollination 145 30-Day Challenge Revisited 147 New Technology Solves Old Problems 148 Find Voids Others Are Too Busy to Fill 149 Vin’s Void Vanishes 150 Chapter 10 The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity 155 Mobile is Going Spatial 156 Truth #10 – Spatial Reality is a Trillion-Dollar Opportunity 157 The M.O.V.E. Method 159 Chapter 11 Working Hard Doesn’t Make You Rich 167 Truth #11 –Working Hard Doesn’t Make You Rich; Working Smart Does 169 Deal Structure 171 Raising Capital 174 Reinvesting Profits 179 Chapter 12 RemoteWorkers Are Your New Competitive Advantage 185 Truth #12 – Remote Workers Are Your New Competitive Advantage 186 Benefits of Employees Working from Home 188 Five Techniques for Managing Remote Workers 190 Part II Future Proofing Your Business 197 Chapter 13 Using Mergers and Acquisitions for Future Proofing You 199 The Art of the Exit 200 Why Large Companies Acquire Small Companies 201 Getting an Offer 204 Chapter 14 Fulfilling the Need for Profitable Sustainability 209 Sustainable Capitalism 211 Purpose-Driven Profits 213 The Sharing Economy 215 Four Questions for Creating Sustainability 217 Chapter 15 Pay It Forward 223 Epilogue – Vin’s Reflections 227 About the Author 231 Acknowledgments 233 Index 235
JAY SAMIT is an author, a former NASDAQ company CEO who held senior management roles at EMI, Sony, and Universal Studios, and is a former independent Vice Chairman of Deloitte Consulting, LLP. Samit is an international keynote speaker and provides disruptive solutions for such corporate clients as Adobe, Coca-Cola, Disney, Ford, Linkedln, Microsoft, Starbucks, Unilever, Visa, and dozens more. He is a columnist for Fortune, appears frequently on ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, NBC, and has been quoted in the New York Times, The Economist, USA Today, Variety, and others. He lives in Los Angeles.
