Why You Should Work Backwards // Tim Duggan

In Tim Duggan’s latest book, Working Backwards, he boldly states that if we don’t change the direction of work soon something is going to break, and that something is us.
 
In the latest episode of The Digital Village show, we discuss...

• Why the way we're working is broken and how working backwards can help mend our fractured relationship with work.
  
  
• The misnomer of 'work-life balance' and flipping work - money - life to life - money - work.
  
  
• Why 'enough' is one of the most powerful words in the English language and why it's important to find yours.
  
  
• The link between happiness and productivity, and how relationships are the key to happiness and longevity.

Guest

Tim Duggan: timduggan.com.au

Hosts

Paul Scott: www.linkedin.com/in/paulmscott
Jason Hardie: www.linkedin.com/in/jason-hardie

The Digital Village Show is presented by Digital Village, a network of over 300 digital specialists that collaborate to solve business technology problems for organisations of all sizes.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Tim Duggan & Work Backwards
• 7:50 Why the way we're working is broken
• 11:56 Life - Money - Work & flipping our thinking
• 14:49 Writing a compelling story
• 18:19 The problem with work-life balance
• 21:11 Taking the fight to corporates
• 23:01 Employer vs employee tension
• 25:54 How quickly will things change & the emergence of AI
• 30:06 The concept of "enough" and finding yours
• 33:46 The link between happiness & productivity
• 36:40 The Finnish/ Scandinavian outlook on contentedness
• 39:21 Relationships are the key to happiness & longevity
• 40:57 The upside down swan & St Luke's
• 44:24 Creating sustainable change
• 46:28 Book tour, audiobook & pronouncing Finnish words