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{{a|book review|ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever|Jason Fried|R2ANYF48BJ1GM2|6 March 2012|Pre-jump briefing for parachutists.}} | {{a|book review|ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever|Jason Fried|R2ANYF48BJ1GM2|6 March 2012|Pre-jump briefing for parachutists.}} | ||
Much of {{br|Rework}} is memorialised common sense | Much of {{br|Rework}} is memorialised common sense — but that kind of common sense that gets glossed over every hour of every day in every organisation in the world. | ||
It is written in a brutally economical style, consistent with its underlying message: everything is overcomplicated: simplify, simplify, simplify. It is also a manifesto for those who want to start their own business. For those who dream fitfully of pulling the rip cord on the corporate treadmill | It is written in a brutally economical style, consistent with its underlying message: everything is overcomplicated: simplify, simplify, simplify. It is also a manifesto for those who want to start their own business. For those who dream fitfully of pulling the rip cord on the corporate treadmill — and let’s face it: in these miserable times, we are the many, not the few — this might be just the firm push between the shoulder blades we need. | ||
Rework is funny, too, and it contains many quotable quotes. My favourite: | Rework is funny, too, and it contains many quotable quotes. My favourite: “[[Policy|Policies]] are organisational scar tissue. They are codified over-reactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again”. | ||
Beautiful: and so true, says your correspondent from [[Legal]]. | Beautiful: and so true, says your correspondent from [[Legal]]. | ||
You’ll be through it in a day, but you’ll read it again. | |||
Excellent stuff. | Excellent stuff. | ||
{{sa}} | {{sa}} | ||
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*{{br|Normal Accidents}} | *{{br|Normal Accidents}} | ||
*[[Playbook]] | *[[Playbook]] | ||
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Much of Rework is memorialised common sense — but that kind of common sense that gets glossed over every hour of every day in every organisation in the world.
It is written in a brutally economical style, consistent with its underlying message: everything is overcomplicated: simplify, simplify, simplify. It is also a manifesto for those who want to start their own business. For those who dream fitfully of pulling the rip cord on the corporate treadmill — and let’s face it: in these miserable times, we are the many, not the few — this might be just the firm push between the shoulder blades we need.
Rework is funny, too, and it contains many quotable quotes. My favourite: “Policies are organisational scar tissue. They are codified over-reactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again”.
Beautiful: and so true, says your correspondent from Legal.
You’ll be through it in a day, but you’ll read it again.
Excellent stuff.