Bill Jensen
is interviewed by host Brad Swift
On the Living & Working On Purpose show
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Bill Jensen is President/CEO of The Jensen Group, a consultancy whose mission is to make it easier to get stuff done. He has spent more than two decades researching how work gets done. His basic conclusion, "Woah. We’ve got a long way to go! How about some discipline around some commonsensical basics?": We must reinvent communication skills; including how people present ideas, and see patterns; We must reinvent our tools and infrastructure to meet the needs of the people doing the work. Read more.
Bill is an information architect with 30 years of experience in communication and change consulting.
His first book, Simplicity, has been hailed as a "breakthrough in the design of understanding." It is in print in over 15 different languages, and was Amazon’s Number 5 Leadership/Management book in 2000. While sitting among the best-seller lists was nice, the acclaim that made him most proud was being called a knowledge worker’s Studs Terkel. "I focus on how real people get real work done," he says.
His next book, Work 2.0, is about changing the rules in the war for talent--putting more control in the hands of the workforce. "It’s time for productivity to get personal," he says.
Then, Simplicity Survival Handbook arrives telling people to "DO LESS! Do less of the corporate silliness. Ignore more of the noise and senseless stuff that comes your way. You deserve better."
His latest, What is Your Life’s Work?, captures the intimate exchanges between mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and caring teammates, all talking about what matters at work, and in life.
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