Designing Your Work Life by Bill Burnett & Dave Evans - Career Self-Help - Hardback

Details
Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780525655244
Publisher: Knopf

Overview
Designing Your Work Life applies the design-thinking method that made Designing Your Life a phenomenon directly to the workplace. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, both of Stanford University, show readers how to reframe unhelpful beliefs about their careers and build small, testable changes that lead to a job that feels genuinely meaningful. Whether you want to reinvigorate a role you already hold or plan a bigger move, this practical hardback offers a clear framework for designing lasting career satisfaction.

About the Book
When Designing Your Life was first published, it became an instant #1 New York Times bestseller, teaching readers to treat their whole life as a design problem with workable, testable solutions rather than something to be endlessly analysed and worried over. In Designing Your Work Life, Burnett and Evans turn that same toolkit toward the place most of us spend the majority of our waking hours: work. Rather than assuming the answer is always to quit and start over, the authors argue that most people can build a far better relationship with the job they already have. Central to the book is the idea of the "dysfunctional belief" — an unhelpful story we tell ourselves about our career, such as feeling permanently stuck — paired with a "reframe" that opens up new options and small experiments to test them. Through practical exercises, real-world case studies and the same design-thinking mindset used across Silicon Valley and Stanford's celebrated design courses, readers learn to identify what is and isn't working, prototype changes, and build a working life that is more productive, more engaged and more fun. It's a hopeful, action-oriented guide rather than a theoretical one, aimed at readers who want tangible next steps.

• Practical, design-thinking approach adapted for the modern workplace
• Written by the bestselling authors of Designing Your Life
• Actionable reframes and exercises you can apply immediately
• Draws on real case studies and Stanford design-course methods
• Shows how to improve a current job, not just find a new one
• Ideal gift for anyone facing a career crossroads

About the Authors
Bill Burnett is the executive director of the Stanford Design Program and previously worked as a product design leader on Apple's groundbreaking PowerBook line. He teaches and directs the undergraduate and graduate design programmes at Stanford University. Dave Evans is co-director of the Stanford Life Design Lab and a co-founder of Electronic Arts, one of the world's largest interactive entertainment companies, holding a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford. Together, the pair are best known for Designing Your Life, which brought design thinking to the challenge of building a meaningful, well-lived life.

Why You'll Love This Book
A refreshingly practical, hopeful guide for anyone feeling stuck at work. Backed by Stanford's design-thinking methodology and written in an accessible voice, it turns vague career anxieties into concrete, testable next steps you can start today.

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