Read Now THE NEW OFFICE SPACE: How the Numerous Successful People Work from Home RTF

This book shares strategies from highly successful people who are thriving in this new world. We’ll talk about:Managing by task, not time. Time is an incredibly useful concept, but structuring work differently allows for efficiency breakthroughs.Getting the rhythm right. A well-planned workday ensures challenging but sustainable progress.Building your team. Wise remote workers can create a more effective network than those sitting in the same cubicle five days per week.Thinking big. There is no contradiction between working remotely/flexibly and nurturing your long-term career ambitions.Optimizing well-being. Working from home at least a few days a week can help people maintain the energy necessary to succeed in a competitive world.Each section has practical tips that you can try today. I’ve done my job if, at least a few times, you say, “I hadn’t thought of it that way before!” My goal is to motivate you to take charge of your workday, and your work life, and to achieve results that would not have been possible under the old operating instructions.In my conversations with highly productive people, I’ve learned that the ones who seem to manufacture time don’t hold to rigid notions of how the 168 hours of a week should be used. They plan their workdays to tackle their most important work when they’re freshest. They meet their spouses for lunch on Tuesdays. They invite former colleagues to go run together at 6:00 A.M. and wind up hatching new business plans while getting some exercise. They head home (or out of the home office) in the evening for family dinner and then sometimes do more work building their empires at night after the kids go to bed. They work in different places, but it’s as much about getting new ideas, and managing energy, as it is about any traditional notions of balance.Sometimes these people’s jobs are inherently flexible. If you run the show, that meeting happens when you want it to. Other times, people simply work as they wish to work, figuring that it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.Now, with upheaval everywhere, far more people have been empowered to work differently. This isn’t easy. There are plenty of challenges in working from home, which this book will describe. No, not the usual assumptions. High-performing professionals do not take to watching Netflix all day just because they can. Bigger issues are if people don’t know when to stop working, or if people get stuck and don’t know what to do without their boss around the corner, or if managers set unclear goals. The self-direction required for remote work is tough—whether you work for someone else or for yourself. But success is possible by keeping in mind two principles we’ll return to frequently in this book.First, working from home is a skill. People can learn to work from home just as they can learn to speak French or play basketball. It’s reassuring to realize that, as with most skills, people do a slipshod job on day one, but get better with time. Spring 2020 provided a crash course, and a lot of bad Zoom meetings with people speaking on top of one another. In crisis mode, many people used modern technology to replicate what they could of the work environments that they’d left behind during that dark week in mid-March. This makes sense and is also enlightening. (So much could be replicated!)Emerging from that, though, is a desire to embrace the second principle: innovate, don’t replicate. This book is a manual for moving to this more mature stage—from the remote work of March 12 to a more thoughtful vision of what remote work can be. Working from home doesn’t need to be about making do, hanging on, and counting the days until everyone is back in the office. Mixed with in-person work, it can be a strategic advantage. In the new corner office, ideas matter more than ever. But shoes? Those are optional. This book is about how successful people thrive while working at home— and how, with their advice,