Hacking Work; Break Stupid Rules and Work Smarter, or Anarchy?
More Efficent or Dangerous Anarchy?
Hacking Work suggests bypassing stupid rules in the workplace makes individuals and organisations more efficient and effective. Or is it high risk anarchy?
Most people have been frustrated by rules and policies that make their work more difficult, often transferring time, and sometimes financial, cost to the individual for theoretical benefit to the organisation. Hacking Work attempts to show how people can bypass apparently stupid rules to the benefit of both the individual and the organisation. However, when the hacker does not properly understand the reasons for the rules there can be considerable risks for both the individual and the organisation.
Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results
Fresh Start – Getting Unstuck by Timothy Butler
How to Use Uncertainty to Make Positive Changes in Career and Life
How Dead Ends Become New Paths sums up this self-help guide to overcoming crisis and self-doubt by making it an opportunity for change based on one's deepest interests.
From time to time almost everyone becomes dissatisfied or uncomfortable with their life or career and it is often very unsettling; Timothy Butler suggests that this time of discomfort can be a precursor or opportunity for making a fresh start. In Getting Unstuck he sets out a way of actively using that Impasse to create Vision which will then allow the reader to Get Unstuck confident that he has a way forward with his life or career that reflects his personality, interests and beliefs.
The book is broken into three sections to take the reader through the stages from uncertainty to a new purpose in life that is true to the real person.
Impasse – “Feeling Stuck and Doubting Ourselves”
The first section is all about recognising the problem and facing the crisis which may vary from a nagging self-doubt to a feelings that might be construed as depression but as an appendix notes this is not usually the case. Most people feel stuck, in a rut, and have doubts. Butler makes it clear that this is an important phases to opening up and letting go so as to be able to move to a new understanding.
