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Hacking Work
One of "Harvard Business Reviews"'s "Breakthrough ideas for 2010."
We all want to do our best and do it efficiently. But companies love bureaucracy, their old technologies, and calcified procedures. We all get frustrated at work; now some of us are doing something about it.
Today's top performers are taking matters into their own hands by bypassing sacred structures, using forbidden tools, and ignoring silly corporate edicts to increase their productivity and job satisfaction.
Consultant Bill Jensen teamed up with hacker Josh Klein to expose the cheat codes for work. Once employees learn how to hack their work, they get more stuff done in less time_by turning the status quo upside down. "Hacking Work" shows you how to:
* Use your own tools and technologies instead of what the company mandates
* Cut through red tape
* Circumvent almost any rule so you can work smarter, not harder
Hacking work is about making the system your servant instead of your master.
We all want to do our best and do it efficiently. But companies love bureaucracy, their old technologies, and calcified procedures. We all get frustrated at work; now some of us are doing something about it.
Today's top performers are taking matters into their own hands by bypassing sacred structures, using forbidden tools, and ignoring silly corporate edicts to increase their productivity and job satisfaction.
Consultant Bill Jensen teamed up with hacker Josh Klein to expose the cheat codes for work. Once employees learn how to hack their work, they get more stuff done in less time_by turning the status quo upside down. "Hacking Work" shows you how to:
* Use your own tools and technologies instead of what the company mandates
* Cut through red tape
* Circumvent almost any rule so you can work smarter, not harder
Hacking work is about making the system your servant instead of your master.
224 pages, ebook
Published September 23, 2010
1 person is currently reading
About the author
Bill Jensen
39 books34 followersBill Jensen makes it easier to do great work.
Bill is today’s foremost expert on work complexity and cutting through clutter to what really matters.
He has spent the past two decades studying how work gets done. (Much of what he’s found horrifies him.)
He is an internationally-acclaimed author and speaker who is known for provocative ideas, extremely useful content, and his passion for making it easier for everyone to work smarter, not harder.
His first book, Simplicity, was the Number 5 Leadership/ Management book on Amazon in 2000. His next best-seller is Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More.
His latest books, Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic. and The Courage Within Us, reveal the secrets of 100 great disruptive heroes on how to thrive and take advantage of continuous disarray, disorder and change.
Bill holds degrees in Communication Design and Organizational Development.
He is CEO of The Jensen Group. Among his clients are Bank of America, Merck, Pfizer, GE, L’Oréal Italia, Genentech, NASA, The World Bank, BBC, Philips Lighting, the US Navy SEALS, the government of Ontario, Singapore Institute of Management, Guangzhou China Development District, and the Swedish Post Office.
Bill’s personal life fantasy is to bicycle around the globe via breweries.
Bill is today’s foremost expert on work complexity and cutting through clutter to what really matters.
He has spent the past two decades studying how work gets done. (Much of what he’s found horrifies him.)
He is an internationally-acclaimed author and speaker who is known for provocative ideas, extremely useful content, and his passion for making it easier for everyone to work smarter, not harder.
His first book, Simplicity, was the Number 5 Leadership/ Management book on Amazon in 2000. His next best-seller is Simplicity Survival Handbook: 32 Ways to Do Less and Accomplish More.
His latest books, Disrupt! Think Epic. Be Epic. and The Courage Within Us, reveal the secrets of 100 great disruptive heroes on how to thrive and take advantage of continuous disarray, disorder and change.
Bill holds degrees in Communication Design and Organizational Development.
He is CEO of The Jensen Group. Among his clients are Bank of America, Merck, Pfizer, GE, L’Oréal Italia, Genentech, NASA, The World Bank, BBC, Philips Lighting, the US Navy SEALS, the government of Ontario, Singapore Institute of Management, Guangzhou China Development District, and the Swedish Post Office.
Bill’s personal life fantasy is to bicycle around the globe via breweries.
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