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It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work

Written by: Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
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Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework, are back with a manifesto to combat all your modern workplace worries and fears.

It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work is a direct successor to Rework, the instant bestseller that showed readers a new path to working effectively. Now Fried and Heinemeier Hansson have returned with a new strategy for the ideal company culture – what they call “the calm company”. It is a direct attack on the chaos, anxiety and stress that plagues millions of workplaces and billions of people working their day jobs.

Working to breaking point with long hours, excessive business, and a lack of sleep have become a badge of honour for many people these days, when it should be a mark of stupidity. This isn’t just a problem for large organisations; individuals, contractors and solopreneurs are burning themselves out in the very same way. As the authors reveal, the answer isn’t more hours. Rather, it’s less waste and fewer things that induce distraction, always-on anxiety and stress.

It is time to stop celebrating crazy and start celebrating calm.

©2018 Jason Fried (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
Careers Stress Management Success Time Management

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!This book is funny, well written and iconoclastic and by far the best thing on management published this year." (The Economist)

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A thorough challenge to the assumptions about running or working in a company

This book is a refreshingly original, humanistic deep-dive into topics such as work-life balance, meetings, growth, rest, vacations, etc. Surely, it doesn't have to be crazy at work. We all can have calm days by cutting down and focusing on the right things.

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I cried

This is the place where I found answers to questions which always lingered in my head. This book makes me proud of my contribution more than I ever felt.

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Excellent!!!

Wonderful strategies for building a calm company. Very interesting listen. good narration. Wonderful ideas on bootstrapping and building a company with absolute freedom.

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Get behind the reasoning of hustle

A book with smaller chapters which is a motivation to finish the book and it's interesting too.

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Excellent listen

In an age of end less and focus run, this is grounding and needed to recenter oneself.

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