Designing Your New Work Life: The #1 New York Times bestseller for building the perfect career

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Bill Burnett

Designing Your New Work Life

The #1 New York Times bestseller for building the perfect career

Bill Burnett

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Vintage
12 April 2023

Management decision making; Coping with stress; Advice on careers & achieving success; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem

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

By: Bill Burnett
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781529197297
ISBN 10: 1529197295
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 12 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General/trade , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Designing Your New Work Life: The #1 New York Times bestseller for building the perfect career

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 *