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Praise for The Year Without Pants

The Year Without Pants is one the most original and important books about what work is really like, and what it takes to do it well, that has ever been written.

Robert Sutton , professor, Stanford University, and author, New York Times bestsellers The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss

The underlying conceptan expert putting himself on the line as an employeeis just fantastic. And then the book gets better from there! I wish I had the balls to do this.

Guy Kawasaki , author, APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur , and former chief evangelist, Apple

If you want to think differently about entrepreneurship, management, or life in general, read this book.

Tim Ferriss , author, New York Times bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek

With humor and heart, Scott has written a letter from the future about a new kind of workplace that wasn't possible before the Internet. His insights will make you laugh, think, and ask all the right questions about your own company's culture.

Gina Trapani , founding editor, Lifehacker

The future of work is distributed. Automattic wrote the script. Time for rest of us to read it.

Om Malik , founder, GigaOM

Some say the world of work is changing, but they're wrong. The world has already changed! Read The Year Without Pants to catch up.

Chris Guillebeau , author, New York Times bestseller The $100 Startup

You'll be surprised, shocked, delighted, thrilled, and inspired by how WordPress.com gets work done. I was!

Joe Belfiore , corporate vice president, Microsoft

Most talk of the future of work is just speculation, but Berkun has actually worked there. The Year Without Pants is a brilliant, honest, and funny insider's story of life at a great company.

Eric Ries , author, New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup

WordPress.com has discovered a better way to work, and The Year Without Pants allows the reader to learn from the organization's fun and entertaining story.

Tony Hsieh , author, New York Times bestseller Delivering Happiness , and CEO, Zappos.com , Inc.

The Year Without Pants is a highly unusual business book, full of ideas and lessons for a business of any size, but a truly insightful and entertaining read as well. Scott Berkun's willingness to take us behind the scenes of WordPress.com uncovers some of the tenets of a great company: transparency, teamwork, hard work, talent, and fun, to name a few. We hear about new ways of working and startups, but we rarely get to see up close the magic that can occur when we truly tend, day in and day out, to building something bigger than ourselves.

Charlene Li , author, Open Leadership , and founder, Altimeter Group

Berkun offers a fascinating inside view of an unusual company that is experimenting with new ways of working. Some of it sounds crazy, but what geeks do today, the rest of us often end up doing tomorrow. It's a great story, packed with insights about corporate culture. Once you've seen how WordPress does things, you'll find yourself asking why your company works the way it does.

Tom Standage , editor, The Economist

Berkun balances keen observation, insights, and humor in this first-person account of a very 21st century organization. You'll be challenged to rethink your assumptions about how work is done, and work itself.

Eden Fisher , executive director, Innovation Management Program, Carnegie Mellon University

A wild behind-the-scenes ride inside one of the most successful and progressive companies on the planet. A timely and prescient view of the future of work.

Douglas Pyle , vice president, JPMorgan Chase

A personal and deeply insightful account of a new way of working in the connected world. Berkun has written an entertaining and thought-provoking read once again!

Paolo Malabuyo , vice president, Mercedes-Benz

Berkun smashes the stereotypes and teaches a course on happiness, team culture, and innovation.

Alla Gringaus , web technology fellow, Time, Inc.