Summary of Bill Burnett & Dave Evans' Designing Your New Work Life

By IRB Media

Get the Summary of Bill Burnett & Dave Evans' Designing Your New Work Life in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Designing Your New Work Life, Burnett and Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job, and how it can improve our experience of work in times of disruption. All disruption is personal, write Burnett and Evans, as with the life-altering global pandemic we are living through now. Designing Your New Work Life makes clear that disruption is the new normal, that it is here to stay and that it is accelerating. And in the book's new chapters, Burnett and Evans show us step by step, how to design our way through disruption and how to stay ahead of it—and thrive.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638159964

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Insights on Bill Burnett and Dave Evans's Designing Your New Work Life

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The real question is not how much money, time, power, or impact you have, but rather, how is it going right now. Because the hedonic treadmill is a never-ending cycle of wanting more and getting less, you will eventually become completely miserable.

#2

The primary reason why people are unhappy with their lot in life is because they fail to realize that they already have more than enough.

#3

Good enough for now does not emphasize growth and change. It is a perspective that puts you in control of what you need in life and what you want to bring into your life.

#4

The author worked for a telecommunication company and was hired to manage several product lines. On his second day of work, he was informed that the previous manager had left the company under mysterious circumstances.

#5

The first step towards redesigning your work life is to accept what you have and to start looking for ways to improve it. You can do this by speaking to people, trying new things, and getting curious.

#6

Reframing means changing how you look at a situation, and it is essential to utilize your mental energy in more productive ways. Reframing means changing your point of view, and by doing so, you can change your actions and reactions to situations.

#7

Good enough is always relative to your situation and your needs. For now is also relative, and change is always possible.

#8

Design thinking can help you change your job and the way you approach it. It will not be easy, and you may have to work hard, but it is possible.

#9

The Set the Bar Low method requires that you start small and set the bar low, but once you’ve accomplished

Reviews for Summary of Bill Burnett & Dave Evans' Designing Your New Work Life

[Florina · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Poorly written summary. Quite a few of the points don’t make sense or skip information needed to make a sense of it all.
Disappointed.