The No.1 Sunday Times Business Bestseller – 30 Ways to Fix Your Work Culture and Fall in Love with Your Job Again

The Joy of Work

Twitter’s VP Europe reveals how to make our workplaces fit for the 21st century

Bruce Daisley is on a mission to change the world of work and help ordinary people to kick their addiction to digital communication. His thesis is attractive and compelling: rather than free us up, new technology is tying us to our devices and desks and raising stress and unhappiness at work with no discernible increase in productivity . . . Daisley may be the man to lead the pushback.

[Daisley] offers helpful tips and ways of thinking to maximise your happiness and productivity at work without giving up your soul.

You’ve probably read a lot about the positives of side hustles and freelance life, but what if you’re committed to a career within a company? European Twitter Vice-President Bruce Daisley has some of the answers . . . Bruce’s book is a manifesto for frustrated workers.

Combating workplace misery has become the mission of Bruce Daisley, European VP of Twitter and host of the podcast Eat, Sleep, Work, Repeat. His latest book, The Joy Of Work, is designed to make us fall back in love with our job again . . . Daisley’s book debunks many long-held assumptions about the workplace.

For many people work has become joyless, but Daisley offers some easy fixes that any employee or team could implement straight away to make work feel better again . . . Daisley has a knack of showing how easy it is to make what are really rather small day-to-day changes at work.

Do you enjoy your job? Only 13% of employees feel engaged in their jobs, according to a Gallup survey of global workers . . . Bruce Daisley offers a range of sensible, and jargon-free, solutions.

Full of zing and enthusiasm for transforming work culture and creating happy and motivated team players.

Daisley may be best known as Twitter’s UK boss and a top podcaster but he's also, as it turns out, a pretty compelling author. The Joy of Work is a series of hacks to make teams closer and workplaces more joyous, covering everything from meetings to meaning, but its evidence base goes a bit deeper – any book that channels both The Strokes and the special forces must be on to something.

Bruce Daisley’s latest book is one to help you achieve what on Monday morning might seem like the impossible: happiness in the daily grind...Touching upon isolation, mental health, communication and, yes, sleep pods, Daisley’s obsession with the workplace and subsequent quest to explore ways to make it better is an enjoyable read.

Bruce gives a fresh perspective on how to get the most out of work, making it fun, and reinvigorating the culture around you...Through simple and practical advice, it allows for a rethinking of how to be (more) productive, instil joy and laughter in the office, and fall in love (again) with work. It’s a business book without the business jargon, and is an enjoyable read from start to finish.

Anthony Miller, Vice-President of Digital Marketing, Disney

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‘Bruce Daisley is on a mission to change the world of work.’ The Times 
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From the creator of hit podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat comes a revolutionary re-envisioning of how to enjoy your job. 
 
Do you want to get more done, feel less stressed and love your job again? 
 
Sometimes having a job can feel like hard work. But between Monk Mode mornings, silent meetings and crisp Thursdays, the solutions are at your fingertips. 
 
Bruce Daisley knows a thing or two about the workplace. In the course of a career that has taken him from some of the world’s biggest media companies to Twitter, via Google and YouTube, he has become a leading expert on how we work now. And in his hugely popular podcast Eat Sleep Work Repeat, he has explored ways to fix it. Now he shares 30 brilliant – and refreshingly simple – tips on how to make your job more productive, more rewarding – and much, much more enjoyable. 
 
 
‘With just 30 changes, you can transform your work experience from bland and boring (or worse) to fulfilling, fun, and even joyful.’ Daniel Pink, author of When and Drive 
 
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"This is a warm, wise and funny book which provides a terrific summary of some of the science - and stories - behind what makes work a positive part of people’s lives. From the importance of lunch to the value of laughter, this book gives witty and practical advice. I loved it and I’ve already started changing some of the things I do at work, as a result!" - Professor Sophie Scott 
 
"Don't quit yet! In this book, Bruce shares remarkable advice that may well have you laughing while you work and truly loving your job." - Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder 
 
“Bruce Daisley’s The Joy of Work is a joy to read. It translates the best of workplace psychology research into practical ways of establishing creative and liveable cultures at work—a must read for all of us 9-5ers!” - Professor Sir Cary Cooper, ALLIANCE Manchester Business School, University of Manchester 
 
“Bruce’s The Joy of Work is an important reminder of simple everyday practices to improve how we all work together, which will lead to greater team and individual happiness and performance. Great results will follow.” - Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square 
 
"With just 30 changes, you can transform your work experience from bland and boring (or worse) to fulfilling, fun, and even joyful. Bruce Daisley has pulled together threads of research and woven them into a tapestry of strategies that actually work, and that don't depend on the CEO's sign-off for implementation. You can begin changing your work culture today at the individual, team, and organisational levels with these tactics that increase creativity, productivity, and satisfaction.” - Daniel Pink, author of WHEN and DRIVE

Bruce Daisley

I love it . . . it hooked me right in . . . A fantastic book.

This is a truly refreshing, captivating and important book that shifted my perception on a topic I thought I knew! A must read.

Steven Bartlett, entrepreneur and host of 'The Diary of a CEO'

A fascinating and important pushback against the narrow, joy-eroding version of 'resilience' that would leave us to sink or swim alone, Fortitude is an indispensable guide to a more energising, human, and effective approach to working and thriving in a post-pandemic world.

Oliver Burkeman, author of 'Four Thousand Weeks'

Surprising and challenging. Fortitude encouraged me to re-think not only my work but how I live my life.

Sarah Ellis, co-author of 'The Squiggly Career'

A book that confirms what I've always believed, that we can't be resilient on our own. In fact resilience is about all of us being stronger than any of us.

A much needed book that unfolds the surprising secrets of resilience. Something I never knew I needed to read but I'm so glad I did, its opened up a whole angle of thinking.

A fascinating analysis of resilience - what it is, what is isn't and why, when we develop it together, it becomes something better and more important, fortitude. It seems that resilience is a team game.

Entertaining. Engaging. Educating. Three words that sum up this cracking read, which offers a timely - and much needed - challenge to the traditional definition on resilience.

Professor Damian Hughes, co-host of the 'High Performance' podcast

Fortitude explores and validates what most of us who work with people feel in our gut when it comes to debunking doctrine about resilience and singular toughness. A fantastic contribution.

Dr Pippa Grange, author of 'Fearless', former Head of People & Team Development at The Football Association

Deeply thoughtful, provocative and insightful Fortitude will push you to question assumptions, think again about your life narrative and probably care more about your friends and community.

Is "resilience" more than blaming victims and telling them they need to act stronger? This wonderful book is Bruce Daisley's personal quest - through his personal experiences and his appetite for digesting rigorous research - to learn about the overused concept of resilience. What Bruce learns is intriguing and important, and hopefully will help us become better parents, leaders, and friends.

Professor Daniel Cable, author of 'Alive at Work'

A riveting read - Fortitude lifts the lid on the orthodoxy of Resilience and shows us where true strength lies. Fortitude is a tour de force.

Julia Hobsbawm, author of 'The Nowhere Office'

One of the UK's leading "workfluencers" [offers] up ahead-of-the-curve takes on the future of workplace cultures . . . Fortitude is an easy to read and well-research book that will appeal to anyone . . . Daisley challenges some of the empowerment narratives that have become unquestioned staples of organisational life . . . [and] offers "fortitude" as an alternative.

An absolute revelation . . . It's with collective support that you can develop resilience. Your own resilience or individual fortitude is not something you do or don't have, it comes from the extent to which you are supported by others. The extent to which people face these issues of resilience is massively divined by the structural inequalities we face.

The Myth of Resilience, and the Secrets of Inner Strength: A Sunday Times Bestseller

'This is a truly refreshing, captivating and important book that shifted my perception on a topic I thought I knew! A must read.' Steven Bartlett, entrepreneur and host of 'The Diary of a CEO' 
 
'It hooked me right in . . . A fantastic book.' Chis Evans 
 
'Entertaining. Engaging. Educating.' Professor Damian Hughes, co-host of the 'High Performance' podcast 
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Resilience is the buzzword of the moment. We're told that if we have it, our lives will be happy and successful ones. If we don't, we need to acquire it. But what if the version of resilience we've been peddled is a myth? 
 
Here, Sunday Times bestselling author Bruce Daisley demolishes a concept that has spawned a multi-million pound industry of books, workshops and courses, exposing the highly questionable science it rests on. In its place he outlines a very different approach to good mental health that embraces the latest science and research. Offering empirically tested advice, Fortitude sets out a practical path to greater self-confidence and courage for us all.

Bruce Daisley

Praise for Fortitude

I love it . . . it hooked me right in . . . A fantastic book.

This is a truly refreshing, captivating and important book that shifted my perception on a topic I thought I knew! A must read.

A fascinating and important pushback against the narrow, joy-eroding version of 'resilience' that would leave us to sink or swim alone, Fortitude is an indispensable guide to a more energising, ...

I love it . . . it hooked me right in . . . A fantastic book.

This is a truly refreshing, captivating and important book that shifted my perception on a topic I thought I knew! A must read.

A fascinating and important pushback against the narrow, joy-eroding version of 'resilience' that would leave us to sink or swim alone, Fortitude is an indispensable guide to a more energising, ...

I love it . . . it hooked me right in . . . A fantastic book.

This is a truly refreshing, captivating and important book that shifted my perception on a topic I thought I knew! A must read.

A fascinating and important pushback against the narrow, joy-eroding version of 'resilience' that would leave us to sink or swim alone, Fortitude is an indispensable guide to a more energising, ...

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