Don't Quit Your Day Job - by Aliza Knox & Wendy Paris (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Learn how to survive and thrive within organisations

In Don't Quit Your Day Job, former Google and Twitter executive Aliza Knox delivers hands-on, practical steps for achieving career success.

Driven by Knox's four decades working in and leading some of the world's most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other people's successes and missteps in global tech, consumer goods, healthcare, academia, social services and more, this book is an essential guide to integrating your professional and personal goals to build a fulfilling, complete life.

The book also includes:

• Invaluable advice to power up your people skills and soft skills, and how to care for your career like you would any other relationship.
• Effective perspectives to help balance your working life and personal life and to build stamina for the long haul.
• A global outlook that reveals how to excel in today's hybrid, often dispersed world of work.

Whether you're just starting your first job or you're ready to rise to the C-suite, Don't Quit Your Day Job will help you advance and flourish in the workplace.

From the Back Cover

'So many people talk about work as a burden and about quitting their job. With good advice and practical steps to thrive and advance your career, Aliza Knox shows how you can make it work for you.'

Dr Hans-Paul Buerkner, Managing Director and Global Chair Emeritus, Boston Consulting Group

'Aliza Knox proves that mindset, not just passion, drives career success.'

Kim Scott, bestselling author of Radical Candor

In Don't Quit Your Day Job, former Google and Twitter executive Aliza Knox delivers hands-on, practical steps for surviving and thriving within organisations.

Driven by Knox's four decades working in and leading some of the world's most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other people's successes and missteps in global tech, consumer goods, healthcare, academia, social services and more, this book is an essential guide to integrating your professional and personal goals to build a fulfilling, complete life.

With six provocative, proven, practical mindshifts, learn how to:

• thrive at work and at home
• foster connections that matter
• build stamina for the long haul
• care for your career as you would any other relationship
• excel in today's hybrid, often dispersed world of work
• stay energised and driven.

Whether you're just starting your first job or you're ready to rise to the C-suite, Don't Quit Your Day Job will help you advance and flourish in the workplace.

About the Author

Aliza Knox built and led APAC businesses for three of the world's top technology firms. Named 2020 APAC IT Woman of The Year, she spent decades as a global finance and consulting executive and is now a non-executive board director, a senior advisor for BCG, and a regular columnist for Forbes, where she shares her wisdom (and humour) to help professionals who dream of 'doing it all'.

Wendy Paris is an essayist, journalist and six-time author whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Psychology Today.