Working Together: Entrepreneurial Couples by Frank and Sharan Barnett(Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1988). This book is written for every couple ready to put an end to separate lives and separate agendas. The wisdom and insights gained through interviews with entrepreneurial couples across the country provide an in-depth look at shared work and life experiences. This book dispels the myths, addresses social biases, looks at benefits and risks, and outlines the steps to becoming successful co-entrepreneurs.

JobShift: How to Prosper in a Workplace without Jobs by William Bridges (Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1994.) What Inc. magazine calls "the most cogent, up-to-date account available of what's happening to traditional notions of work, jobs, and careers--and why." | Book Review |

We Are All Self Employed: The New Social Contract for Working in a Changed World. by Hakim Cliff. (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler. 1994). An empowering model for steering your own direction and influencing the quality of your own life, whether you work inside or outside an organization.

Running A One-Person Business by Claude Whitmyer and Salli Rasberry. Forward by Tom Peters. Paperback - 280 pages 2nd Rev edition (May 1994) Ten Speed Press; ISBN: 0898155983. A simple, practical, honest guide to long-term success. Written for the single-person operation, but equally helpful to any business. Contains the obligatory chapters on bookkeeping, financial management, and time management, but goes further to talk about special ways of organizing information, how to lay out a work space, and the special concerns of working from home. Most important are chapters on choosing technology, emotional support systems, and how to manage the growth of a one-person business. This book could also serve as a handbook for managers who want to develop their entrepreneurial skills for application within an organization. | Book Review |

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