Next!

The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work

By: Joanne Lipman

Narrated by: Nan McNamara

Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

The ultimate guide to mastering change and successfully reinventing how you live, work, and lead

“Filled with useful ideas for rethinking your next steps.”—Adam Grant

The profound disruptions of recent years have sparked a collective reckoning. We reprioritized our lives, and reordered how we envisioned the future. Businesses were forced to pivot, while leaders scrambled to rethink their roles. There has been an unprecedented global reset. But in truth, almost everyone goes through this kind of reappraisal at least once in their life—and probably more often than that. Whatever the catalyst, it prompts in us the urgent need to pivot, to ask the question:

What’s next—and how do I get there?

In Next!, bestselling author and journalist Joanne Lipman distills hundreds of personal interviews along with the latest scientific research to answer just this question. Through irresistible storytelling, she takes us inside successful career reinventions (ad executive to bestselling novelist; stay-at-home mom to CEO) and astonishing business transformations (wait until you hear what Play-Doh and Viagra have in common). From the laboratories of neuroscientists to the boardrooms of Fortune 500 companies, to the frontlines of the social justice movement, Lipman explores how and why these transformations succeed.

At its heart, Next! offers a thrilling argument: by harnessing the science and understanding the process, we can better understand how to reinvent that new career, change the direction of our lives, or inspire innovation in our organizations. This book provides a toolkit that shows how to make meaningful transitions—large or small—and to figure out for ourselves what’s Next!

©2023 Joanne Lipman (P)2023 HarperCollins Publishers

Can’t finish it

I got halfway through and without warning there was a gruesome story.
The other stories so far are well worn tropes we’ve heard before.
The narrator is relentlessly cheerful and just too irritating.
I expected more.

Inspiring and very enjoyable read

I really enjoyed listening to “ Next”. Loved how the stories unfolded and they were truly inspiring, and also I very much appreciated the encouragement of the author to keep going and “there is always a reason for something you are doing”, sometimes it is not clear and the stage of struggle is something people don’t like talking about, everyone just wants to talk about their successful transformation when it is already done. So it was very refreshing to normalize the process of transformation, that struggle phase is part of the process and everything that we learn through the course of our life is like a building block to our next step. Loved the book! And it was very easy to listen to, very enjoyable. Thank you!

Enjoyed It

I listened to it on my drives to work over the course of a couple of weeks. It was full of hope and promise that if you keep your mind open, you’ll find your calling. My journey continues…

Great Listen!

Like another reviewer noted, I listened to this during my drives into the office. While I don’t intend to give up my career (I love my current path), Next has motivated me to pursue other supplemental income ideas that I’ve been hesitant to pursue. These thoughts have been with me for years and that clearly means something.

I am glad our CEO recommended this read!

Excelente

Demonstra muito bem como a vida pode ser cheia de mudanças e transformações, radicais ou não. Com dicas muito úteis para se ter coragem de mudar

Nothing new here

A meandering stitch up of familiar principles, well know studies, and glorified success stories. Well written and well performed but, alas, largely a waste of time.

Not much new

Lots of well known stories and no major insights. Hard to listen to for nine hours.

naive and kinda stupid

"Next" as in the next chapter of your life? Too simplistic and naive. Using examples of penicillin, 3M sticky notes and Viagra as examples to look for your next chapter in life is stupid and unrealistic. What a wast of time.