The Thing About Work: Showing Up and Other Important Matters [A Worker's Manual]

ISBN-13: 9781629561585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str.

Richard Moran

Opis

• Why does a CEO who has already made hundreds of millions of dollars continue to work?
• Why does a rock star who has made a bundle continue to tour?
• Why do retirees' miss work as soon as they stop doing it?
• Why do we all wrestle with our life's work and talk about it incessantly?

The thing about work is that we love it, we hate it, we need it, we miss it, we measure ourselves by it, we judge others by it--we are addicted to it. Work often defines us and fulfills us. Yet, today's rapidly changing workplace environment is stressful and confusing to deal with. In The Thing About Work, Richard A. Moran takes a ground-level perspective on what is happening at work and how to thrive in the new professional world. Through funny, prescriptive vignettes and short essays, Moran finds the "white space" in the company manual--those issues that you encounter every day at work but which are not covered in employee training. He uses hilarious and true stories from his own life and others' to answer questions like, "Should you take your dog to work?" and "How late is late?" and "What is that foreign object growing in the refrigerator?" This very contemporary view of work will prove invaluable for the modern employee.

Spis treści

The Thing About the Refrigerator; Where the Rubber Meets the Air; The Saddest Three Letters in Business; The “At the End of the Day” Thing; What's the Plan?; Does Low-Hanging Fruit Exist?; The Chickens Need a Raise; Showing Up Still Matters; The Working from Home Thing; Are You Responsive?; Coffee Is the New Lunch and Other Coffee Matters; What Is That Smell?; Making a To-Do List Is Not the Same As Getting Something Done; Can We Cancel All Meetings but Keep the Doughnuts?; How Late Is Late?; The IT Guy Is the Most Important Person You Know; Dogs in the Halls; That Double-Secret Probation Thing; All My Mentors Are Dead; The Three Best Business Books Ever Written; The Thing About Getting Hired and Fired; Getting Hired Is a Probability Function; Networking—It's All About Traffic; Words That Matter in the Hunt; Gigs Are a Beautiful Thing; Tell Me About Yourself and Other Lies; Coffee Can Kill a Career; Why Do Interviewers Talk So Much?; Hello? Anyone Out There?; Reference Checking and Your Secrets; The Interns Are Coming; Performance Review Benedictions; Get Fired at Least Once—It Can Be Good for Your Career; If You Are Going to Get Fired, Get Fired Fast; When Resigning, Do It Fast; I Don't Love You Anymore; How to Fire a CEO; Lunch Is Neither a Good Time to Fire Someone nor to Get Fired; What Kind of Gone Is Your Job?; The Use of F-Bombs Won't Help You with Your Next Job; When Terminated, Pay Less Attention to Delivery Mode Than to Content; It Is Not Difficult to Get Fired—It Is Difficult to Get Hired Again; Never Resign Before Landing Another Job; My Career Clock Is Ticking; Moving from Boy Wonder to the Gray Hair in the Room; Is It Too Late?; The Make More Money Thing; That Personal Brand Thing; What Do You Do?; Start All Over!; That Ten Thousand–Hour Rule; The Work–Life Balance Thing; Not My Job; The Job Title Thing; Projects, Projects, Projects; The Networking Thing; Talking About Pay!; Working in the Polar Vortex; Is Work Killing Us?; What Happens on the Road Does