Designing Your New Work Life
by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
The Stanford designers apply their method to the job you already have: reframing problems, redesigning your role, managing your boss, and knowing when to quit. The remote-work and disruption chapters were added later. It is practical and more immediately useful than the original for people who cannot simply leave.
Read it if…
you do not love your job and cannot quit it this year.
Skip it if…
you have not read Designing Your Life and want the full method; start there.
Three things you will actually use
- Redesign the job before leaving it.
- Reframe the problem; most are gravity problems or framing problems.
- Prototype the next move with conversations.
Do this first
Write your 'good time journal' for a week: when at work were you engaged and energized?
Our verdict
Practical and realistic; a good book for staying and improving.
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