THRIVING IN 24/7

SIX STRATEGIES FOR TAMING THE NEW WORLD OF WORK

Sally Helgesen

"This book offers realistic strategies and proven principles that will not only help you find more time, but will teach you how to spend it on what matters most."
Dr Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Thriving in 24/7 is a guide to navigating a new world of work in which all the rules have changed. In the 24/7 world, home can seem like a branch office. Email beckons at 3am, we work not nine-to-five but accross multiple time zones, we are flooded with so many options that our personal lives feel like second jobs. How, asks Sally Helgesen, do we keep from being swallowed up by a world that is fundamentally out of sync with human nature?

Helgesen, a premier thinker on the role of work in the knowledge economy, offers readers six powerful strategies for achieveing and maintaining equilibrium in this new world. Drawing upon dozens of interviews with men and women adept at navigating life in 24/7, she urges us to:

• Start at the core
• Learn to zigzag
• Create our own work
• Weave a strong web of inclusion
• Build a clear brand, and
• Practice the rhythm of renewal.

Sally Helgesen shows us that bucking up or burning out are not the only choices if we want to get ahead. Thriving in 24/7 offers an imaginitive, sometimes radical, blueprint for achieving balance in an unbalanced world.

Sally Helgesen delivers keynotes, runs workshops amd consults for organizations all over the world. Articles on her work have appeared in Fortune, BusinessWeek and Fast Company and her previous books include The Web of Inclusion, Everyday Revolutionaries and the business classic The Female Advantage. She is a participant in the Financial Times Leadership Dialogue and a member of The Learning Network.