Book review: The Project 50 (Reinventing Work)

I’ve almost made it a hobby to read career improvement and self-help books, and I’ve found some of Tom Peter’s ‘50’ books to be some of  the most useful. Although they look like they’re written and laid out by someone who was dropping massive quantities of speed, the ‘50’ series of books are packed with some good information. Although written 1999, most of the information presented in the books is still good. For creating and managing IPCs, The Project 50 (Reinventing Work) is the most pertinent of the series.

The Project 50 is a book of 50 action items to take when developing, selling, implementing and finally exiting your project. Or as Peter’s puts it, your ‘WOW!’ projects. Although I get the impression this book is directed at IT professionals, most of the information can be ported to conceptualizing and creating an IPC. Your ‘WOW’ project is the IPC that you’re creating.  The information that he writes about, particularly with creating, selling and exiting the project relates to IPCs for the most part. The implementation section probably isn’t as useful for IPC purposes, but is worth a read through anyway.

Conclusion
If you can get over the layout and high-energy writing, Project 50 is an inexpensive ideas book for getting your IPC moving forward. I recommend reading it through for IPC and career ideas. As of this post, Amazon has it in stock for around $5-6 US dollars.