ReWork: Difference between revisions
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) No edit summary Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
||
| (12 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{review| | {{a|book review||Pre-jump briefing for parachutists.}}{{br|ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever}} | ||
{{Author|Jason Fried}} | |||
Original review: 6 March 2012 | |||
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. Common sense that ''needs'' memorialising. | |||
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 [[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”. | |||
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}} | |||
*{{Br|Bullshit Jobs}} | |||
*[[Policy]] | |||
*{{br|Normal Accidents}} | |||
*[[Playbook]] | |||
Latest revision as of 19:14, 14 November 2022
|
|
ReWork: Change the Way You Work Forever
Original review: 6 March 2012
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. Common sense that needs memorialising.
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.