Designing your new work life / Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
By: Burnett, Bill (Business consultant) [author]
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Contributor(s): Evans, Dave [author].
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BookPublisher: London : Vintage, 2023Copyright date: ©2021Description: 383 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781529197297 (paperback); 1529197295 (paperback).Subject(s): Quality of work life | Work environment | Self-developmentDDC classification: 650.1 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Wellbeing | 650.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Wellbeing Collection - Self-development | 00198574 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Careers | 650.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Careers Collection | 00219365 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Careers | 650.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Careers Collection | 00219366 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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
Includes bibliographic references (pages 375-383).
Your new work life -- Making it work at work -- Are we there yet? -- Money or meaning -- What's the problem? -- My overwhelm is overwhelmed -- Mind-set, grit, and the ARC of your career -- Power and politics -- Don't resign, redesign! -- Quitting well -- Moving on -- Being your own boss -- All disruption is personal -- Now where are we? -- Disruption design -- The humans in the room -- Permission to be happy.
Wellbeing.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
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.