Dimensions
159 x 235 x 21mm
Answer The Big Questions About What Really Matters . . . And Reawaken The Passion For What You Do.
A practical guide with an inspirational core that probes the fundamental questions about work, and provides a new approach to discovering what really matters in work and life.
Bill Jensen has been called the Studs Terkel of the information economy. In 'What Is Your Life's Work?' he builds on a decade of chronicling work's connection to how we live. The book offers a practical and inspirational guide that gives every work-weary soul a new process for making peace with their jobs and themselves. 'What is Your Life's Work?' probes the fundamental questions about our jobs we all should asking ourselves, and inspires us to find the strength to get unstuck. The book weaves the first-person stories of workers and leaders across the world with the best of Jensen's inspirational advice for confronting the emotional side of our work. As has been documented in major research and media coverage, the pace and expectations of life in today's workforce are leaving people unsure about the future, making them sick, and straining the bonds of family and community.
What is our 'life's work'? It is, every day, figuring out the difference between what we think we're supposed to do and what really matters. It is tapping our creativity, finding our integrity, and making decisions - before it's too late. Through the inspiring first-person stories of people across the world who have met and overcome the challenges of work and life, Jensen identifies 7 stages of discovery readers can follow to achieve their own clarity of purpose and direction in their work and life.
In the course of Jensen's work, he has interviewed and surveyed more than 350,000 people in over 1,000 companies around the world. Soon, he was asking individuals to explore the answers in letters and journal entries addressed to the most important people in their lives. As people realized they were writing to change their children's future, or how others lived their lives, they experienced new insights, leading to meaningful change. Through these moving "work diaries" and Jensen's first-hand reporting on the state of the workplace today, he delivers a guide to every reader's quest for meaning in our jobs and peace of mind in the day to day.
