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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
Whether you're 20, 40, 60 or older, many of us are still looking
for an answer to that perennial question, `What do I want to be
when I grow up?' In Designing Your Life, Silicon Valley design
innovators Bill Burnett and Dave Evans use their expertise to help
you work out what you want -- and how to get it. Their phenomenally
successful Life Design course has been tried and tested by
thousands of people, from students to mid-career professionals to
retirees contemplating a whole new future. Now in book form for the
first time, their simple method will teach you how to use basic
design tools to create a life that will work for you. Using lots of
real-life stories and proven techniques like reframing, prototyping
and mind-mapping you will learn how to build your way forwards,
step-by-positive-step, to a life that's better by a design of your
own making. Because a well-designed life means a life well-lived.
At last, a book that shows you how to build--design--a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage
Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or home--at the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve.
In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used to design and build your career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise.
'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times We will
spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes. But how best to
use those hours is one of our most challenging questions. We all
want to find meaning at work, but our managers can't get it for us.
And as companies work to be more nimble and shift according to
changing markets, the workplace is increasingly unpredictable. It's
up to each of us to define and find our own happiness in this
ever-moving landscape, which is rich with opportunity and
possibility. Designing Your Work Life helps you understand the
politics and psychology of work and equips you with the 'design
thinking' principles - the innovative methodology pioneered at
Stanford that has been fuelling the growth of Silicon Valley - to
build a working life that works for you. Designers don't analyse,
worry, think, complain their way forward; they build their way
forward. Perfect for anyone hoping to improve their current job,
aiming for a promotion or even switching career paths, as well as
recent graduates thinking about their future, Designing Your Work
Life is a deeply empowering read. Part business book, part
inspirational and innovative self-help, this book will help you
answer one of life's most challenging questions.
Advantage To achieve and hold the competitive advantage today you
must repeatedly solve your customers' problems better than your
competition. This requires accurately defining their problems and
inventing new knowledge-based solutions that cannot be easily
copied. You'll see how to break through outdated mindsets to create
a work environment that allows even seemingly "crazy" solutions to
prove themselves and flourish. This approach to innovation is one
that will ensure your company is prospering long after others have
folded up their tents and faded away. Advantage: Business
Competition in the "New Normal," by author and thought leader Bill
Burnett, is about CEOs learning to build trust and empower their
workforce, and linking their employees work to their sense of self
and their drive to make the world a better place. Advantage
presents the formula that enables companies to dominate their
industries. With a wealth of examples and real-life stories,
Advantage illustrates the paradigm shift required to thrive in the
"new normal." Read this book; then, drop it into inter-office mail
to your CEO or a board-of-directors member.
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