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Designing Your New Work Life

The #1 New York Times bestseller for building the perfect career
By Bill Burnett
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In Designing Your New Work Life, Bill Burnett offers readers insightful tools and frameworks to reimagine and enhance their professional lives. Drawing from design thinking principles, the book provides practical strategies to navigate the complexities of career transitions, work satisfaction, and resilience. Burnett encourages creativity in approaching work, aiming to help individuals craft fulfilling and adaptable careers.
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You might enjoy this book if you're seeking practical strategies to redesign your work life, whether you're contemplating a career change or simply looking to enhance your current job satisfaction. Written by experts in design thinking, it offers creative tools and insights to help you craft a fulfilling and adaptable professional life.

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Designing Your New Work Life

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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

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Designing Your New Work Life offers valuable guidance for those seeking meaning and joy in their professional lives, particularly relevant for individuals adjusting to remote work. It addresses important aspects like growth mindsets and workplace dynamics, providing useful and relevant tools to help individuals find fulfilment in their careers. The book is noted as a strong follow-up to the authors’ previous work and is recommended for both college students and professionals looking to rethink their approach to work.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529197297

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 January 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 199.0mm

Weight: 319g

Pages: 400

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Bill Burnett Business & Entrepreneurship Business Leadership & Management Career Development Company Culture & Human Resources Happiness & Mental Health Health & Wellness Mindset & Self Help Motivation & Inspiration New Year, New You Non-Fiction Penguin Books Personal Development Philosophy & Psychology Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

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.

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