Rules for Renegades [Paperback]

Christine Comaford-Lynch (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2007

Christine Comaford-Lynch reveals the unconventional secrets of her multimillion-dollar success - and how her "get stuff done" philosophy works better than any business degree. She's never had a high school or college diploma, but that didn't stop Christine Comaford-Lynch from becoming a five-time CEO, a multimillionaire, and a Buddhist monk. Comaford-Lynch's many lives and the skills she's picked up along the way have been distilled into her own G.S.D. (get stuff done) "diploma" - a tool for career and life advancement that's better than any M.B.A."Rules for Renegades" delivers 10 hard-earned lessons and battle-tested advice that gives you the ability to start just where you are, and forge a path to becoming an entrepreneur, quitting your job, and getting the stuff done that will make the success you've always wanted a reality. 'Christine is super high-bandwidth' - Bill Gates. 'Christine Comaford has turned the traditional VC (venture capital) process on its ear' - "Fortune". 'By reputation, Christine Comaford-Lynch is the woman you want to partner with' - "Newsweek". 'Christine can launch your business and life into the stratosphere. Often funny, always cut-to-the-chase, she delivers the goods to get you where you want to go, exposing her trials and triumphs along the way' - Jack Canfield, cocreator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul[registered]" book series and coauthor of "The Success Principles".

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About the Author

Christine Comaford-Lynch is a five-time CEO and company founder-and all five businesses grew to be either acquired or taken public. She has 20 years' experience in operational high-tech positions with Microsoft, Lotus, Adobe, and Apple. She has assisted 700 of the Fortune 1,000 companies in implementing technology and has consulted with the White House on tech and small business strategies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw Hill Professional; UK ed edition (September 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0077117417
• ISBN-13: 978-0077117412
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,760,507 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Messy Miraculous World, May 18, 2009

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Le Minh Ngoc "www.LeMinhNgoc.com~Body to Busi... (Hochiminh City, Vietnam) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rules for Renegades (Paperback)

I own both: the original hard-cover copy in English and the soft-cover in VIETNAMESE.

I found this beautiful combination of East and West from Christine Comaford-Lynch's books engaging and electrifying. Strange but feel like home, I found myself showing up a lot in this little powerful energy booster.

The amazing thing is not in the book itself: For the last 4 weeks I have been following Christine's guidance through email, blog, Business Renegades on Facebook, Tweeter, AskChristine, MightyVentures, you name it. I've been taking one small step after another to discover a NEW Entrepreneur in me.

Surprisingly, it's not overwhelming, at all. I feel, well, so FREE.

http://blog.leminhngoc.com/2009/05/06/this-messy-miraculous-world.aspx

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Finally - an author who uses "rock" as a verb as much as me!, June 17, 2008

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Kirsty Dunphey "www.kirstydunphey.com - Autho... (Tasmania, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rules for Renegades (Paperback)

That said, this is definitely one of the strangest business books I've read in a long time - and this is the genre I read about 95% of the time. About half way through the book I was saying to my friends "can you believe she's writing about sleeping with Bill Gates in this book?" - but you know what, I was talking about it, I was creating buzz for the book and I certainly couldn't put it down. I don't know if you'd describe the author Christine as likeable, nor would I say she's trying to be: she's flawed, but she knows it (and aren't we all), she's a character (wait a minute, she's a monk, a geisha, a burnout, a tech-head, an investor, an entrepreneur - make that she's multiple characters), but by the end of the book I really connected with the message that she was trying to put out. Interesting and slightly shocking reading, definitely not predictable.