El libro Aprende a trabajar de Michelle King, galardonado con premios como el Porchlight Best Business Book y reconocido por Inc. Magazine, ofrece una guía práctica para entender y manejar las reglas no escritas del mundo laboral. Basado en más de una década de investigación, King revela que el éxito profesional no depende de las reglas formales, sino de comprender y navegar las normas informales del entorno de trabajo. La autora presenta un marco con cinco áreas clave: redes informales, autoconocimiento, adaptación, apoyo para ascender y propósito profesional. El libro enseña cómo prosperar en un mercado laboral cambiante, desarrollando pertenencia, redes y habilidades más allá de lo evidente.
In her two decades researching organizations, Michelle King has discovered that people who succeed possess a particularly unique skill: They know how work places work. More specifically, to get ahead, they do not rely on the often generic and outdated written formal rules that for a century have defined the workplace. Instead, they have learned to gauge how they should behave and perform by becoming aware of informal (and unspoken) rules that exist just below the surface, rather than “formal” organizational guidelines. In this one-of-a-kind guide, King offers her proprietary framework based on over ten years of research and hundreds of employees who reached leadership positions. By focusing on five key areas -- navigating informal networks, developing self-awareness and awareness of others, learning the skills you need to be adaptive to changing conditions, getting support for your next promotion, and finding meaning and fulfillment at work—King teaches every professional how to understand and make these systems work for them and achieve their career ambitions. The new world of work requires a new way of working. With more people vying for top positions, a volatile unpredictable global workplace, and an ever-evolving landscape, it is increasingly important for employees to understand how to negotiate the unspoken and intangible elements of workplace culture. In How Work Works, King dispels old myths and provides keen observations about what it means to find belonging, build networks, manage the informal and ultimately thrive at work.