Bøger af Bill Burnett

#1 New York Times Bestseller An inspiring and thought-provoking graduation gift: At last, a book that shows you how to builddesigna life you can thrive in, at any age or stage Designers create worlds and solve problems using design thinking. Look around your office or homeat the tablet or smartphone you may be holding or the chair you are sitting in. Everything in our lives was designed by someone. And every design starts with a problem that a designer or team of designers seeks to solve. In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are. The same design thinking responsible for amazing technology, products, and spaces can be used todesign and buildyour career and your life, a life of fulfillment and joy, constantly creative and productive, one that always holds the possibility of surprise. "e;Designing Your Lifewalks readers through the process of building a satisfying, meaningful life by approaching the challenge the way a designer would. Experimentation. Wayfinding. Prototyping. Constant iteration. You should read the book. Everyone else will."e; Daniel Pink, bestselling author ofDrive ';This [is] the career book of the next decade and . . . the go-to book that is read as a rite of passage whenever someone is ready to create a life they love.' David Kelley, Founder of IDEO ';An empowering book based on their popular class of the same name at Stanford University . . . Perhaps the book's most important lesson is that the only failure is settling for a life that makes one unhappy. With useful fact-finding exercises, an empathetic tone, and sensible advice, this book will easily earn a place among career-finding classics.' Publishers Weekly

Designing Your Life is an inspiring book by Dave Evans. Published by Vintage Publishing in 2017, the book falls under the self-help genre. This book is more than just a read, it's a journey that encourages you to rethink your life and career. It provides practical, actionable tools and exercises to help you design your life in a way that is most meaningful to you. The author, Dave Evans, uses his expertise to guide you through the process of building a satisfying, joyful life. Designing Your Life is a must-read for anyone looking to make a change or find direction in their life. Published by Vintage Publishing, it's a testament to their commitment to publishing books that make a difference in people's lives.

Designing Your Work Life helps you understand the politics and psychology of work and equips you with the 'design thinking' principles - the innovative methodology pioneered at Stanford that has been fuelling the growth of Silicon Valley - to build a working life that works for you.

What matters most to the long term success of companies is their ability to compete. CompeteAbility is about maximizing that ability based on the success of the few organization that have done this extraordinarily well, coupled with research into human behavior and the tools that can smooth the road to success and, ultimately, make such success inevitable. Welcome to the 2nd Edition

AdvantageTo achieve and hold the competitive advantage today you must repeatedly solve your customers' problems better than your competition. This requires accurately defining their problems and inventing new knowledge-based solutions that cannot be easily copied. You'll see how to break through outdated mindsets to create a work environment that allows even seemingly "crazy" solutions to prove themselves and flourish. This approach to innovation is one that will ensure your company is prospering long after others have folded up their tents and faded away. Advantage: Business Competition in the "New Normal," by author and thought leader Bill Burnett, is about CEOs learning to build trust and empower their workforce, and linking their employees work to their sense of self and their drive to make the world a better place. Advantage presents the formula that enables companies to dominate their industries. With a wealth of examples and real-life stories, Advantage illustrates the paradigm shift required to thrive in the "new normal." Read this book; then, drop it into inter-office mail to your CEO or a board-of-directors member.

How does deliberately increasing the amount of pain a patient feels in a colonoscopy lead to more effective sales to prospective clients?The best salespeople ask questions. When I ask why, they respond with three primary reasons: -To qualify the prospect-To find the prospect's pain-To get to know the prospectWhen I ask for examples, all their questions share a common objective. They're information-gathering questions. Information gathering is important in a sales call. However, questions can serve dual-purposes. Recent science tells us that they can be powerful tools of influence. That is what I focus on in this monograph. How can questions, and their answers, influence the prospect's choice? In OUTSELL, you will learn about three specific types of questions that influence:1. Intent Questions2. Counterfactual Hypothetical Questions3. Peak/End QuestionsYou'll understand why they work, what makes them powerful, and how to construct and use them. And, yes, you'll get the answer to the colonoscopy question.

We will spend up to 120,000 hours at work in our lifetimes.But how do we best use those hours? And how do we adapt to today's working world?'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times_____________________________________From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Designing Your LifeWith this innovative and deeply empowering book, all of us can find answers to these challenging questions. It offers a fresh understanding of the politics and psychology of work and, by sharing the 'design thinking' principles that have been fuelling the growth of Silicon Valley, helps us to build a working life that is rewarding and meaningful.Designing Your New Work Life features updated creative tools to:Redesign your current jobOptimise your hybrid work and workspaceUp your communication gameAdapt to any disruptionLaunch your next career chapter