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Redesigning Work
Mar 28, 2026 12:50 PM

Author:Lynda Gratton

Redesigning Work

We are experiencing the greatest global shift in the world of work for a century. So, how do we make the most of this unique opportunity and radically redesign the way we work - forever?

Professor Lynda Gratton is the global thought-leader on the future of work. Based on thirty years of research into the technological, demographic, cultural and societal trends that are shaping work, and building on what we learnt through our experiences of the global pandemic, Lynda Gratton presents her innovative four step framework for redesigning work that will help you:

Understand the challenges your business is facing

Reimagine creative, new approaches and processes

Model and Test these within your organisation

Act and Create based on contemporary, data-led feedback

Whether you're working in a small team or running a multinational, this is the time to make lasting change and equip your business for the future. Redesigning Work is the definitive book on how to transform your organisation and make hybrid working work for you. It will help your team embrace change, increase productivity and thrive in our new, more flexible working world.

Reviews

An intelligent, deeply thoughtful book that will walk you through the choices that will be critical to your people's future happiness and well-being, and by extension, to your organization's performance.

—— Rita McGrath

We are going through a period of extraordinary change and working practices will change profoundly. Lynda's book helps us think through the implications.

—— Lord Mervyn Davies, formed CEO and Chairman of Standard Chartered

Very much a how-to guide, with practical frameworks and examples. The message is clear: don't leave the future of work to chance

—— Financial Times

A remarkably thoughtful and practical guide to rethinking how work gets done. With Gratton's help, this journey can be far more systematic and rewarding than it would otherwise be.

—— Amy Edmondson, Harvard Professor

Lynda's book couldn't come at a better time as every CEO and their senior team grapple with the future of work. This book provides excellent advice as we attempt to build it!

—— Ann Cairns, Vice Chairman Mastercard

Very much a how-to guide, with practical frameworks and examples. The rigour and discipline Gratton brings to the book might surprise those who haven't been involved in organisational change. The message is clear: don't leave the future of work to chance

—— Financial Times

Insects are the most vivid expressions of the astounding fact of life in what may be a dead universe. Read this book, then look and wonder.

—— Bryan Appleyard , Sunday Times

Thoughtful, frightening and yet hugely enjoyable... This book will make you think differently about our right of dominion over the planet.

—— Joe Shute , Daily Telegraph

Studded with engaging descriptions...[and] a plenitude of practical suggestions... This is a crusading but not a preachy book... I was charmed, enthused, dismayed and grieved by Silent Earth.

—— Richard Davenport-Hines , The Oldie

His magnum opus. Silent Earth is both a heartfelt letter of love to the insect world that has captivated him from childhood, and a rousing call to arms to counter the recent catastrophic decline in insects before it is too late... Magnificent.

—— Caroline Sanderson , The Bookseller, Book of the Month

It's remarkable that [insect] decline has gone largely unnoticed by non-specialists... Keep dreaming, Dave Goulson. We'll need more dreamers like you.

—— Ben Cooke , The Times

If Silent Earth contains a single incontestable message it is that nature - insects, flowers, plants, trees, birds and mammals, including our species - is a single system... This powerful book tells us that we need to act as if we understand this essential truth.

—— Mark Cocker , Financial Times

The book's greatest strength is its insistence that change is possible, and that everyone can make it happen in small and large ways. Goulson steps seamlessly between knowledgeable professor and impassioned environmentalist, and you can't help but get on board.

—— Sierra Magazine

An eloquent and unflinchingly honest book... intelligent and thoughtful - and yes, beautifully written.

—— Forbes

Our collective lack of understanding and shortsightedness has brought us to the brink of ecogical disaster. We have disregarded the warnings for too long and simply cannot afford to ignore Dave Goulson's tremendously timely book.

—— George McGavin

Terrific... A thoughtful explanation of how the dramatic decline of insect species and numbers poses a dire threat to all life on earth.

—— Booklist, Starred Review

[Silent Earth's] message...is important and should be heeded.

—— Nigel Andrew , Literary Review

Dave Goulson... writes enchantingly.

—— Andrew Robinson , Nature

Enlightening, urgent and funny, Goulson's book is a timely call for action.

—— New Statesman, *Books of the Year*

[Silent Earth] should be obligatory reading for politicians and those in power... compelling... [Goulson] draws up his case in a very readable and accessible style... an essential and timely book.

—— John Green , Morning Star

After another frame-wrecking year I can think of no better book to recommend than Dave Goulson's Silent Earth

—— Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year*

Goulson's book deserves to be widely read. It is fact-filled and well balanced in the minefield of environmental politics.

—— International Journal of Environmental Studies

Challenging, but also funny and refreshingly low in sanctimony, this book is no frothing polemic. It will doubtless alter many readers' understanding of the systems we all participate in and lead them to make different choices. For others, it should prompt the difficult moral reasoning that those of us who love animals but also profit from their suffering cravenly manage to avoid... Mance is an amiable guide: curious and open-minded.

—— Melissa Harrison , Financial Times

Mance...is spot on to make us confront the horrible truth... [How to Love Animals] will force its readers to stop and think about the incomprehensible scale of unnecessary suffering we impose on our fellow creatures.

—— Julian Baggini , Literary Review
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