The Playbook

The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career – Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew – (Crown Business)

My wife is floored by the fact that our son, an IT guru, works for a HUGE multi-national company often, not from an office, but from the comfort of his living room sofa, surrounded by a multitude of high tech gear and his collection of cats. The world of work has changed.

Our daughter, like so many young people, has an amazing level of technical skill and shows flashes of creative brilliance; clearly she takes after me. While armed with these marketable skillsets, with a world of opportunity in front of her, she doesn’t have the first inkling of what she wants to do for her path forward. The world of work has changed.

It is that changing world that comes into focus in the new book The New Rules of Work: The Modern Playbook for Navigating Your Career, by the co-founders of the website, themuse.com, Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew. Cavoulacos and Minshew have put together a travel guide to the way not only work is done today, but how to navigate the minefield and along the way build a career path that will help you grow, be successful and actually help you to be happy with the choices you make.

Too many folks, spend far too much time looking at their life and career in the rearview mirror of regret. Cavoulacos and Minshew cut things down to small, easily digestible chunks that will not overwhelm folks who are at any of the various stages of their career path. If you are trying to determine a direction, possibly change direction or just trying to tune up your job search skills, The New Rules of Work has something, if not a whole bunch of somethings to offer.

At some point soon I will be sliding my copy of the book in front of my daughter and sending a copy to my son. Now the only trick will be to get them to actually pick it up and read this old school thing known as a book…wonder if they have an X-Box One version?