Excellent guide for recent (or soon-to-be) college grads

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	• The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need Daniel H. Pink Riverhead Trade, 2008 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 44 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A Breath of Fresh AIR

I like Johnny Bunko's message. The advice is solid.
The format is not. There actually isn't much content to this to merit the length... not that it was long, but most of it was filler.
I have no problems with manga in general, but the style really wasn't very suiting for this. I'm not sure who this book is really marketed to. If you've read a lot of manga you're likely to find the format comfortable but the story lackluster compared to anything else in the genre. If you haven't, I guess you could see JB as novel and cute, but I'd be surprised if you rated this as perfect because the content really could have been posted on a general career advice web page, the length of which would not exceed two pages in a Word document.

I haven't purchased anything else written by Daniel Pink, but I highly suggest his book A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future over this, as I find it difficult to believe that anyone could arbitrarily expand the amount of content in Johnny Bunko to the size of a novel... so you're bound to get more for your money with that than this.

Suffice it to say that this probably isn't "the last career guide you'll need"- it's more like an introduction.

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Excellent guide for recent (or soon-to-be) college grads

Looking for a book to give your child who is about to graduate college and enter the workforce? Look no further. Johnny Bunko, written in the manga style of Japanese comics, is the answer. Author Dan (A Whole New Mind) Pink provides six life lessons, packaged in a humorous and readable comic strip book, perfectly executed for the Gen Y reader.

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A much-appreciated graduation gift

Gave this to our 18-year old nephew on Saturday at his graduation party, and he started reading while his guests were still at the buffet! When I spoke with him today, he gave the book high marks and sounded geniunely impressed and excited about the information he had gained from such a quick read. If you're trying to help a young person find direction at graduation time, I think this little gem would make a great gift.

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Extraordinary guidance, with pictures!

Subtitled "The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need," this intriguing little book is written in manga (Japanese word for comics, read all over Japan on a variety of topics). Clearly written to connect the newer workforce (the style is illustrated comic book panels with the narrative in bubbles, etc.), it is nonetheless quite insightful, humorous and extremely practical in its focus.

The protagonist, Johnny Bunko (his adventures continue at [...]) is in a deadend job as a "bean counter" for a large corporation called Boggs, Inc. He inadvertently meets up with a "genie" with an attitude called Diana who appears when he breaks apart some chopsticks from his takeout order. Over the course of the story, Diana proceeds to give Johnny and some of his coworkers the six "lessons of a successful, satisfying career" (to quote Diana). Each lesson is delivered by Diana when Johnny reaches a critical point in his work, summoning her once more by breaking apart another set of chopsticks.

The six lessons are:
1) There is no plan. No career can be mapped out in its entirety from start to finish, don't even try. Do things for fundamental reasons, not instrumental ones.
2) Think strengths, not weaknesses (Diana references Martin Seligman of "Authentic Happiness" and Marcus Buckingham of "Go, Put Your Strengths to Work" by showing them to Johnny as bobbleheads. She even introduces Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" research to the befuddled employee).
3) It's not about you. It's about the customer, the client, making your boss look good while using your strengths.
4) Persistence trumps talent. Dogged determination is the key to success, and is much more easily maintained when you are doing things that feed your passion.
5) Make excellent mistakes. If you are constantly concerned about doing things wrong, you will miss out on extraordinary solutions. To quote Diana, "the most successful people make spectacular mistakes - huge, honking screwups! ...each time they make a mistake, they get a little better and move a little closer to excellence."
6) Leave an imprint. Do something that enables you to look back on your career and know that you made a difference, that your being here mattered.

An extraordinary book, packed with solid advice in a format that can be read easily in under an hour.

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The use of Anime as a platform for wisdom...

I'll keep my review short, since this is a short book. I was scared that I was not getting value for my money but boy was I wrong. The books is comprised of six career principles and some other pearls of wisdom but the use of anime, allows the examples to be so clear and concise that it is not necessary to include anymore details and so at the end, I did not feel cheated. The book is really designed like a manga. It is good that the writer didn't keep the dialogue childish and the artist was able to convey a wide range of emotions. The story is a universal one in that, anyone can relate. It deals with destiny, failure, selflessness, perseverance and leaving a legacy. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

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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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