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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.}}Much of {{br| | {{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 — but that kind of common sense that gets glossed over every hour of every day in every organisation in the world. | ||
Jason Fried writes in a brutal economical style, consistent with its underlying message: everything is overcomplicated. | Jason Fried writes in a brutal, economical style, consistent with its underlying message: everything is overcomplicated. | ||
Simplify, simplify, simplify: a message that falls on dear ears in the legal community. | Simplify, simplify, simplify: a message that falls on dear ears in the legal community. | ||
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For those of us fitfully dreaming of pulling the rip cord on the [[bullshit jobs|corporate treadmill]] — let’s face it: in these miserable times, we are the many, not the few — ''Rework'' might be just the firm push between the shoulder blades we need. | For those of us fitfully dreaming of pulling the rip cord on the [[bullshit jobs|corporate treadmill]] — let’s face it: in these miserable times, we are the many, not the few — ''Rework'' might be just the firm push between the shoulder blades we need. | ||
It is funny, too, and incisive, and quotable. My favourite zinger: | |||
“[[Policy|Policies]] are organisational scar tissue. They are codified over-reactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again”. | “[[Policy|Policies]] are organisational scar tissue. They are codified over-reactions to situations that are unlikely to happen again”. | ||
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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.
Jason Fried writes in a brutal, economical style, consistent with its underlying message: everything is overcomplicated.
Simplify, simplify, simplify: a message that falls on dear ears in the legal community.
For those of us fitfully dreaming of pulling the rip cord on the corporate treadmill — let’s face it: in these miserable times, we are the many, not the few — Rework might be just the firm push between the shoulder blades we need.
It is funny, too, and incisive, and quotable. My favourite zinger:
“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.