Good Work - Kathryn Page

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Résumé :

About the author xi
Foreword xiii
Prologue xv
Introduction: What if good work was treated as a universal right not a privilege? xvii
About this book xxiii

Part I The case for good work 1

1 What if work was the solution to wellbeing? 3
2 What if thriving at work mattered as much as GDP in our economies? 13

Part II Me 19

3 What if pausing was the new productivity? 21
4 What if performance was measured by energy not hours? 33
5 What if mental health was pursued through challenge not comfort? 45
6 What if meaning was the missing metric in modern work? 57

Part III We 69

7 What if workplaces became communities of connection and mattering? 71
8 What if we all had permission to challenge each other and still belong? 83
9 What if we built teams that worked in rhythm, not overdrive? 93
10 What if every leader could integrate both challenge and care? 105

Part IV Us 115

11 What if jobs were designed to unleash energy not output? 117
12 What if our first response to stress was to fix work, not the worker? 127
13 What if work and life flowed with true agility across roles and stages? 147
14 What if every system was built for the person least likely to belong? 159
15 What if recovery at work was the standard, not the exception? 169

Conclusion: What if the future arrived early? 185
Acknowledgements 189
Bibliography 191
Notes 198