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| The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel H. Pink
Creator: Rob Ten Pas
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 968
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 160
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 1594482918
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.14
EAN: 9781594482915
ASIN: 1594482918
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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There's never been a career guide like The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need. Told in manga-the Japanese comic book format that's an international sensation--it's the fully illustrated story of a young Everyman just out of college who lands his first job. Johnny Bunko is new to the Boggs Corp., and he stumbles through his early months as a working stiff until a crisis prompts him to rethink his approach. Step by step he builds a career, illustrating as he does the six core lessons of finding, keeping, and flourishing in satisfying work. A groundbreaking guide to surviving and flourishing in any career, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko is smart, engaging and insightful, and offers practical advice for anyone looking for a life of rewarding work.
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 Get Beyond the Bad Advice that Family and Friends Give April 1, 2008
30 out of 35 found this review helpful
Young people mostly get their career advice from friends (who usually don't have any more experience or knowledge than they do) and family (who base their ideas on what worked three decades ago). Either way, you get off track pretty easily.
There's plenty of good career advice in books and articles, but most young people wouldn't sit still long enough to read those sources. A Whole New Mind author, Dan Pink, comes up with a great solution: Create a career advice book in the form of manga.
Most career writers when they want to simplify a message use a fable, with a few illustrations that show the key perspectives. The fable is clearly secondary to the details.
In The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, the story is more interesting than the advice. Having read a lot of Mr. Pink's writing, I thought I knew what he would probably advise. But I didn't realize that he would make the story so interesting, and that the manga format would add so much power to the story telling. Nice work!
What's the advice? Let me rephrase to make it clearer to you:
1. Don't be rigid about planning out each step well in advance . . . it's not possible to do.
2. Build on what you're good at (Peter Drucker originated that one) and avoid relying on what you aren't good at.
3. Focus on what you can do for others (start with the boss) rather than what's in it for you (you can read more about this in How to Be a Star at Work).
4. Keep at it. Practice makes perfect.
5. Take on big challenges and learn from them.
6. Make a difference.
I like this advice. I hope my youngsters will read this book and apply it. I know they probably wouldn't if it came from dear old Dad.
If I could add one piece of advice, it would be to:
Set some written goals about how you want to spend your life. Those goals will help you keep focused.
Well done, Dan Pink and Rob Ten Pas!
Forget All Other Career or Life Guides! This One Hits Home. April 2, 2008
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
What a ride! This story had me laughing out loud, nodding my head, and cheering all at the same time. It delivers a message I wish I had heard years ago when trying to figure out my "career". The surprising thing, is that the six essential lessons experienced in Johnny Bunko are still very powerful and very relevant to me-even after almost 20 years in the workforce. You can't help, after putting down the book, re-examining your life choices regardless of your age or life stage.
How many stories can intertwine Deepak Chopra, Salvador Dali, Alegbra, the Haitian guy on Heros, Einstein, youtube, and chopsticks while delivering messages that are so easily digestible? Sorry about the food reference, but after this book you crave Chinese food.
I read it in one sitting. But, like any good movie or favorite sitcom, you don't want it to end. Between the words and the manga you are carried effortlessly through the story--kudos to the symphony created by Dan Pink's ideas and Rob Ten Pas' artistry.
At the end, you'll want a pair of those "chopsticks" for yourself.
My suggestion: You can't go wrong with this book. It is a must for anyone trying to figure out what they want to do-so it is perfect for the high school student, the college student, parents of these kids, as well as anyone struggling with life's decisions.
I wanna be Daniel Pink! April 4, 2008
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Daniel Pink has done it again, but in an ingeniously innovative way through manga graphics. Both my teen-aged daughter, who is exploring her passions and strengths in a school course entitled "Career Explorations", and I, exploring the next phase of my life during a mid-life opportunity, found this little tome full of wisdom, fun, and uncommon sense in charting the journey of our life's work and our work life. Sometimes a compass if far more useful than a map, and Johnny Bunko points true North.
 Brilliant idea, but... April 20, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've been a career counselor for over 25 years, and I've used many career books. Pink's "Bunko" is a brilliant idea--manga to reach the younger generation. As far as I can tell, this is the first manga career guide in America, aimed at Americans. This is Pink using his "Whole Mind"!
Having said that,I take issue with the first Lesson--"there is no plan." Many careers, esp. those that are licensed, certified, etc., require a great deal of planning. These include health careers, law, and education. Along the way, there may be a great deal of "luck" factor (Luck=where opportunity and preparation intersect) or happenstance, but planning is necessary. Other careers develop more haphazardly and cannot be planned as easily. Still, professional careers require goal setting, which is part of the planning process. While a college major often has little to do with your eventual career choice, a college degree is still becoming what the high school diploma used to be. And, going to and getting through college with decent grades also takes planning.
I might rename this Lesson: "Rethink How You Choose a Career" Not as provocative, but certainly more accurate.
A better read about the luck factor, or "there is no plan" aspect of career choice, John Krumboltz's, "Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career." If you are still in college, check out your campus career planning office. They vary greatly in helpfulness, but had Johnny learned more about his strengths earlier through this process (part of planning your future), he might have realized that his approach to choosing a career was off track.
Also, this is definitely NOT "the last career guide you'll ever need." I don't know if Pink created this subtitle, or if his publisher did. This hyperbole can also be seen in "A Whole New Mind," where the tagline is "Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future." "Rule the Future"? Please!
Otherwise, I think there is good merit to the other lessons. Yes, this only skims the surface of career guidance, but it makes these lessons accessible in today's "sound byte" generation. I am in the process of "field testing" this book with youth from 14-30. The 14 year old loved it; my 21 year old son said at first glance that it looked "hokey." But I think he'll read it and get something positive from it.
Once I've gotten more feedback from younger folks, I'll be back to report on it!
Should be required High School reading April 21, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I wish I had understood a little bit of this book's message in high school - I enjoy my career now, but I sure could have used this in my early 20s and fresh out of college.
6 Career Lessons sneak into your head via an entertaining story; great for adults, too, who may be wondering how they can make a change in their career.
Now, you're not going to find detailed, life-changing instructions in this little book, but if you sit down and think about the real message of the book, you'll understand that the 6 Lessons are just nudges in the right direction.
This book will be a regular gift to those high school seniors I know.
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