Don't Quit Your Day Job

The 6 Mindshifts You Need to Rise and Thrive at Work

Aliza Knox, Wendy Paris

• Editore: Wiley
• Anno: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780730396604
• Edizione: 1
• Argomento: Persönliche Entwicklung
• Categoria: Karriere

Learn how to survive and thrive within organisations

In Don't Quit Your Day Job, former Google and Twitter executive Aliza Knox delivers hands-on, practical steps for achieving career success.

Driven by Knox's four decades working in and leading some of the world's most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other people's successes and missteps in global tech, consumer goods, healthcare, academia, social services and more, this book is an essential guide to integrating your professional and personal goals to build a fulfilling, complete life.

The book also includes:

• Invaluable advice to power up your people skills and soft skills, and how to care for your career like you would any other relationship.
• Effective perspectives to help balance your working life and personal life and to build stamina for the long haul.
• A global outlook that reveals how to excel in today's hybrid, often dispersed world of work.

Whether you're just starting your first job or you're ready to rise to the C-suite, Don't Quit Your Day Job will help you advance and flourish in the workplace.

Index

• activities for fun 158
• adventure, using your thirst for 137–144
• affairs at work 100
• Alkon, Amy, Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck 66, 70
• Anugrah, Erfi, and retraining 125–127
• Ardern, Jacinda, work‐life balance 4
• Ashworth‐Keppel, Tanya, and job‐hopping 110
• author, and serendipity 22–23
• author's MBA and swimming 9–10

• bad bosses, standing up to 96–97
• Barbara, and stamina 29–30
• Barron, Sandra, taking a serendipitous opportunity 23–26
• batching communications 147
• being present 69–70
• birthday celebrations 153
• Blakesley, Bianca, and free training 125
• Bo, on standing up to new management 95
• bonding over being overseas 15–16
• Bonk, Paul, and work‐life balance 8
• book clubs as supports 33
• bosses
  • —effects of good and bad 19–20
  • —standing up to bad 96–97

• boundaries, setting 102–105
• Bread & Butter Project 92–93
• Bring Your Brain To Work, Art Markman 10–11
• Brown‐Philpot, Stacy, on working in different cultures 139–140

• career, thinking of as relationship 81
• career changes
  • —making one at a time 124–127
  • —as norm 110
  • —without further education 121–123

• career development without moving firms 127–129
• Career and Family: Women's Century‐Long Journey Toward Equity, Claudia Goldin 101
• career stamina 31–32
• career success, effect of outside interests on 9–11
• career transitions 120–121
• Carpenter, Cindy, on g...