"This pioneering perspective on making invisible creative work visible is both intellectually-grounded and practically-oriented."
John Howkins’s Invisible Work offers trailblazing, inspirational guidance for ways in which workers in today’s disparate labour environments can make the intangible tangible. More specifically, it answers the question: how can workers manage and manifest the hidden, important practices of thought and creativity?
“The power of the unseen” underpins the book’s fundamental ethos. “Invisible work cannot be observed and its meanings cannot be deduced. Cognition cannot be seen”, and yet it is key to many working contexts. Furthermore, how we manage how we are – or aren’t – able to make ourselves visible is central to how well we progress, how well we are remunerated and how much satisfaction we derive from work. Throughout Howkins provides thought-provoking examples and fresh insights that turn accepted thinking on its head, with a fabulously forward-looking analysis of the benefits of a four-day week and better balance between work and home. “Work as if people mattered” is the title of a section towards the end of the book, an honorable ethos that employers and employees alike would do well to heed.
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'John Howkins' books have proven clairvoyant; this new book is no exception. It is a must-read for innovation leaders' Alice Loy, CEO and co-founder of Creative Startups
A visionary exploration of the global future of work and an essential framework for work/life growth in the era of the remote professional.
The old models no longer apply. Work today depends on personal, subjective ideas which begin inside our heads and whose success depends on never-ending negotiations with what's going on inside other people's heads. It depends on attitudes and behaviours in small, smart, fast teams. Job descriptions, office structures and nine-to-five expectations have become optional. All the crucial moments - the thoughts and feelings that decide what we do - are invisible. How we manage this and make it visible determines how well we do, how we are paid and whether we enjoy our work.
In Invisible Work, John Howkins explores how to discover purpose, autonomy and opportunity in this new isolated, yet connected, world.
'Fresh, original, powerful, profound and deeply practical' Jeremy Hunter, founding director of Executive Mind Leadership Institute
Invisible Work features in the following genres: Self Help and Personal Development, Business and Management, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Health & Fitness, Economics, Finance, Business and Management
Invisible Work is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Invisible Work was written by John Howkins and published by September an imprint of Duckworth Books
Invisible Work has 328 pages
£8.99
