37Signals has released a new book called, Rework.  The authors are Jason Fried and DHH, co-founders of one of the most successful cloud apps on the market, Basecamp and creators of the wildly popular application framework, Ruby on Rails.

Should you buy it?  Will it help you make the leap from existing to exceptional in your business?

I ordered Rework last week and had it shipped to my hotel for SXSW.  I was able to read it start to finish on my 2 and a half hour flight from Austin to Chicago so it’s an easy read.

I’m going to lay down the good points here in my review.

I will start off by saying this is a business book.  This means the goal of the book is to help you take action.

This book is about how to get the balls to run your business.

Twitter hashtag I’ve seen going around is: #rework

Ready To Get Real?

If you haven’t read “Getting Real” which is the first book by 37Signals, you need to read it.  It was the first book put out by 37Signals nearly 5 years ago.

Getting Real is  free to read online or $19 for the ebook and $25 for the paperback.  I bought Getting Real in 2005 around the time I first trialed Basecamp and it caused me to quit my job (a good thing!).  Getting Real delivers sound advice on how to run a company.  Even though it’s actually addressing a style of computer programming, the lessons are applicable to any business out there.  It made me realize that the company I worked at needed to “Get Real” but it wasn’t my job to help them.  People start companies to run them so I started my own within 6 months of reading this book. Read More…