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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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Don't Quit Your Day Job
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Letter to the reader
  6. mindshift one: Go for both: Your work and your life are on the same team
  7. mindshift two: Stamina is a muscle. Build yours!
  8. mindshift three: Connection trumps tech savvy … even in tech
  9. mindshift four: You are in a relationship with your career: Nurture it
  10. mindshift five: Get a move on! Use movement to stay energised and thrive
  11. mindshift six: Distant is the new diverse: Include the international and working‐from‐home team
  12. Moving forward
  13. Acknowledgements
  14. Appendix: Quick reference guide
  15. Index
  16. End User License Agreement
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