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Summary

Who Do You Think You Are? Times are changing fast. Traditional working practices and the concept of a conventional job are increasingly becoming things of the past as we make sense of a new marketplace where the only limit to success is our own imagination. What Does it take to Survive in This New Scrambled Up World of Work? * Attitude - to get started * Enterprise - to succeed * Success - at maximising opportunities * Worklife - in the right balance The challenges - and the opportunities - for the 'entrepreneur-within' the huge. For micro-businesses, home-workers, freelancers, it's all for the taking. That is the essence of LEAP! A stimulus for taking the plunge to go it alone and set yourself free... and for making it up as you go along! "Ian Sanders connects brilliantly wit the mindset and needs of talented professionals in their migration away from corporate mediocrity. LEAP! is a personal guidebook to both the practicality and emotion of making work matter." - Chris Nel, Partner, Tom Peters Company

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
What this isn't
Who do you think you are?
Attitude
Starting out
Make sure you're hungry
Passion wins
Get known for being a safe pair of hands
Be distinctive
Don't bullshit
Perception is everything
Soaking it up
Warning: steep incline ahead
Get involved and get visible
Don't listen to anyone who says 'no' to your ambition
Be real!
Follow your gut feeling
Leverage what you've learnt
Get out of the classroom
Knock down the barriers
A focal point
Why failure's OK
You'd better believe it
From city trader to sole trader
Conformity sucks
Why catalysts count
It's a risky business
'Easy'??!
Go for it
Enterprise
The bare basics
Having the idea
Do it yourself
Making something (anything) out of nothing
Wrapping up your know-how
'Sell' is not an expletive
Expressing yourself
Learn to juggle ... well
Turning a contact into a client
Charge them!
Make sure you are valued
Doing the deal
Enterprise is the only way
Why being a chameleon can be a good thing
A toe in the water
Funding ain't often fun
The power of collaboration
Introduction time
Know how to make money
Counting your money
On the cheap
Different kinds of profit
What is 'core business' anyway?
Get a reward
Doing the sell
Keep in touch
Quick and ready
Brand power
Reinvent yourself
Living off your latest gig
Picking your team
Get some personalities
Going naked
Success
Starting up and fi nishing up
Do you have what it takes?
You don't need big tools
Business doesn't come in a flat pack
The six-point business plan
It's who you know (of course)
Getting connected
Get yourself a mentor
Polymaths have all the fun
What do you do again?
Lucky breaks
Facing up
Don't waste time
Ideas, ideas, ideas
The importance of scribbles on little scraps of paper
Learn to say 'no'
Know when to shut up!
Value + value
Don't do mediocrity
Consume the world of your client
Here's to a damn good lunch!
Think ahead
Burnt fi ngers
Just like that
When to walk away
Details
Get it right online
Don't hide from the customer
Getting regular gigs
Bloody obvious management
Small is best
Get your hands dirty
Don't give too much away
Think 'entrepreneur', not 'freelance'
Avoid those faux pas
Making a difference
Worklife
If you don't want to know the score, look away now
It's a life thing
Nostalgia trips
Do you love stress?
A space to work
Somewhere else
Motivation
Get stimulated
Benchmarks that really count
A secret
There is always an alternative
A love of speed
From feast to famine
What is 'the working day'?
Budgets, business plans and babies
Trying to switch off
Home time
Taking time out
No rungs on the ladder
Who wanted a job for life anyway?
The importance of self-sufficiency
Where is everybody?
Making it up as you go along
Getting a return
What you do, not where you are
Giving up
Is there any going back?
A new way of being
Now, the end (or, actually, the beginning)
Appendix: Tales from the frontline of the scrambled up world of work
Index
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