From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company.
We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes.
But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world?
'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your Life
With this innovative and deeply empowering book, all of us can find answers to these challenging questions. It offers a fresh understanding of the politics and psychology of work and, by sharing the 'design thinking' principles that have been fuelling the growth of Silicon Valley, helps us to build a working life that is rewarding and meaningful.
Designing Your New Work Life features updated creative tools to-
Redesign your current job
Optimise your hybrid work and workspace
Up your communication game
Adapt to any disruption
Launch your next career chapter
From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company.
We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes.
But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world?
'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times
_____________________________________
From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your Life
With this innovative and deeply empowering book, all of us can find answers to these challenging questions. It offers a fresh understanding of the politics and psychology of work and, by sharing the 'design thinking' principles that have been fuelling the growth of Silicon Valley, helps us to build a working life that is rewarding and meaningful.
Designing Your New Work Life features updated creative tools to-
Redesign your current job
Optimise your hybrid work and workspace
Up your communication game
Adapt to any disruption
Launch your next career chapter
Bill Burnett (Author)
Bill Burnett is the Executive Director of the Design Program at
Stanford. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and
has worked professionally on a wide variety of projects ranging
from award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the original Star Wars
action figures. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents,
and design awards for a variety of products including the first
'slate' computer.
Dave Evans (Author)
Dave Evans is the Co-Founder of the Stanford Life Design Lab and
holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford. Early in
his career he worked for Apple, where he led the mouse-design team
and introduced laser printing to the masses. He then helped found
the pioneering interactive and game software developer Electronic
Arts.
For many of us working from home, advice on how to find meaning and
joy is welcome when the daily commute is a walk downstairs and the
movie Groundhog Day feels more like a documentary...the economic
upheaval created by the pandemic will no doubt make this book an
attractive proposition for many people now considering a radical
change in lifestyle or just questioning what work is all about.
*Financial Times*
In a world where it seems almost revolutionary to love your job,
these tools just might help you find a few more ways to like going
to work
*USA Today*
A worthy successor to the authors’ previous work that also stands
on its own, this should be an essential read for college students
and might also become a hit on the lecture circuit.
*Library Journal*
Burnett and Evans address important matters including strength
finders, growth mindsets, and the dynamics of power and politics in
the workplace...helpful, clearly written, and relevant
*Booklist*
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