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The End of Work as You Know It: 8 Strategies to Redefine Work on Your Own Terms
MAKE YOUR JOB WORK FOR YOU
In today's often-challenging job market, many of us want to feel more engaged with our current jobs rather than try to find the "perfect" position. Veteran leadership consultants and authors Milo and Thuy Sindell share eight thought-provoking strategies to help you create the end of work as you know it--their phrase for the ideal state of harmony among what you do for a living, why you do it, and the results you achieve.
Strategies such as Initiate Change, Create Meaning, Spark Creativity, and Build Legacy will empower you to make your job work for you--instead of the other way around. Real-world examples and practical exercises put the strategies into context and are sure to inspire you to take action, transforming the daily grind into lasting, meaningful accomplishments. These tools can help you regroup whenever you find yourself disengaged at the office, regardless of your field or career stage. So when you're ready to quit singing the 9-to-5 blues, The End of Work as You Know It guides you toward aligning your values with your professional goals in order to fundamentally change your experience of work.
In today's often-challenging job market, many of us want to feel more engaged with our current jobs rather than try to find the "perfect" position. Veteran leadership consultants and authors Milo and Thuy Sindell share eight thought-provoking strategies to help you create the end of work as you know it--their phrase for the ideal state of harmony among what you do for a living, why you do it, and the results you achieve.
Strategies such as Initiate Change, Create Meaning, Spark Creativity, and Build Legacy will empower you to make your job work for you--instead of the other way around. Real-world examples and practical exercises put the strategies into context and are sure to inspire you to take action, transforming the daily grind into lasting, meaningful accomplishments. These tools can help you regroup whenever you find yourself disengaged at the office, regardless of your field or career stage. So when you're ready to quit singing the 9-to-5 blues, The End of Work as You Know It guides you toward aligning your values with your professional goals in order to fundamentally change your experience of work.
- GenresNonfiction
122 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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December 21, 2013
I gave it 3 stars because I can see how someone would find this book useful if they were just starting to ask themselves how to make their job more meaningful. I already looked at my career in terms of the PERMA approach described by Seligman, which includes Engagement and Meaning, 2 attitudes described in this book.
Each chapter is actually redundant unto itself. Each chapter describes a possible perspective you may want to adopt for your job to make it more palatable, enjoyable. But the steps suggested to implement each perspective are always very vague, never specific. And that can be a problem for many readers. Don't get me wrong, the book may be useful in helping you find methods to make your job more enjoyable, but you will have to put the book down many times to do some thinking on how to implement the authors' ideas. That is a huge defect of this book.
Each chapter is actually redundant unto itself. Each chapter describes a possible perspective you may want to adopt for your job to make it more palatable, enjoyable. But the steps suggested to implement each perspective are always very vague, never specific. And that can be a problem for many readers. Don't get me wrong, the book may be useful in helping you find methods to make your job more enjoyable, but you will have to put the book down many times to do some thinking on how to implement the authors' ideas. That is a huge defect of this book.
May 9, 2010
My new favorite book on work life.
July 27, 2011
Already doing amost of the 8 strategies, but it was nice to see I was on the right track!
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