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Series: Designing Your New Work Life How to Thrive and Change and Find Happiness--and a New Freedom--at Work Paperback Bill Burnett 9780593467459 $24.00 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Oct 26, 2021

From the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life comes a revised, fully up-to-date edition of Designing Your New Work Life, a timely, urgently needed book that shows us how to transform our new uncharted work life into a meaningful dream job or company. With practical, useful tools, tips, and design ideas that show us how to navigate disruption (global, regional, or personal) and create new possibilities for our post-COVID work world and beyond.Bill Burnett and Dave Evans successfully taught graduate and undergraduate st... + Read More