Are you one of the 68% of US workers (and 87% of global workers) who are disengaged from your job? Are you ready to quit your boss? (People quit bosses, not companies) don’t do it yet! Authors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans provide solutions to these and so much more in their book Design Your Work Life. Today I’m joined with Hope Kramek, an Instructional Designer and Content Manager at Intuit. Here’s a primer from the book’s website:

"Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can transform our present job and our experience of work by utilizing the designer mindsets: Curiosity. Reframing. Radical collaboration. Awareness. Bias to action. And, the new mindset, Storytelling, helps engage others in helping you find the best job for you."

In summarizing and reflecting on the book, Hope and I cover topics such as:
👉 How reframing your problems can help determine what’s next in your career
👉 Focusing on the best doable options rather than the best theoretical option
👉 The power of aiming for “good enough for now” and a growth mindset
👉 The flaw of trying to “follow your passion”
👉 And the many ways that simply figuring out what you are curious in and talking to others about it can open new doors in your career.

Resources
👉 The Peril’s of Following Your Passion (podcast episode)

Introduction music, “For Mimi” by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Artist: TwinMusicCom

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