Learn how to survive and thrive within organisations

InDont Quit Your Day Job, former Google and Twitter executive Aliza Knox delivers hands-on, practical steps for achieving career success.

Driven by Knoxs four decades working in and leading some of the worlds most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other peoples 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 todays hybrid, often dispersed world of work.

Whether youre just starting your first job or youre ready to rise to the C-suite,Dont Quit Your Day Job will help you advance and flourish in the workplace.

Aliza Knoxbuilt and led APAC businesses for three of the worlds 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 theNew York Times andPsychology Today.

Letter to the reader ix

mindshift one Go for both: Your work and your life are on the same team 1

mindshift two Stamina is a muscle. Build yours! 29

mindshift three Connection trumps tech savvyeven in tech 51

mindshift four You are in a relationship with your career: Nurture it 79

mindshift five Get a move on! Use movement to stay energised and thrive 107

mindshift six Distant is the new diverse: Include the international and working-from-home team 133

Moving forward 163

Acknowledgements 165

Appendix: Quick reference guide 167

Endnotes 171

Index 179