Dave Evans & Bill Burnett | Designing Your Work Life
Good Life Project
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4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Dave Evans is a Lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford, Management Consultant, and co-founder of iconic gaming company, Electronic Arts. Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Dave decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. And, maybe, along the way, answer the question, "what should I do with my life?" Helping people get traction on that question finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and continues to be his life’s work. Bill Burnett is Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford. He got his BS and MS in Product Design at Stanford and has worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from award-winning Apple PowerBooks to the original Hasbro Star Wars action figures. Together, they wrote New York Times bestselling book, Designing Your Life, and the follow-up, Designing Your Work Life (https://amzn.to/3hflUvz), train coaches and run workshops for individuals and organizations.
You can find Bill Burnett & Dave Evans at:
Website : https://designingyour.life/
Twitter : https://twitter.com/DYourLife
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| 0:00.0 | Dave Evans is a lecturer in the product design program at Stanford Management Consultant, |
| 0:11.9 | co-founder of the iconic gaming company, Electronic Arts. |
| 0:16.5 | Having participated in forming the cultures at Apple and EA, Dave decided that his best |
| 0:22.3 | work was really in helping organizations build creative environments where people could |
| 0:27.9 | do great work and really love doing it. |
| 0:31.5 | And maybe along the way, answer the question, what should I do with my life? |
| 0:35.6 | And helping people get traction on that question finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and |
| 0:40.7 | it continues to be his life work. |
| 0:42.9 | Now Bill Burnett, who became his collaborator, is the executive director of the design program |
| 0:50.8 | at Stanford. |
| 0:51.8 | He got his BS and MS in product design at Stanford. |
| 0:54.4 | He has worked for a wide variety of projects, ranging from award-winning Apple power books |
| 0:59.8 | to the original Hasbro Star Wars action figures. |
| 1:03.0 | And together, they took all their wisdom about doing great work, being lit up and living |
| 1:08.0 | a better life and wrote the near-time, best-selling book, Designing Your Life. |
| 1:13.3 | And more recently, the follow-up, Designing Your Work Life. |
| 1:17.5 | And they also continued to train coaches and run workshops and individuals and work with |
| 1:22.2 | organizations really exploring this question. |
| 1:26.0 | So I had the chance to sit down with Dave and Bill earlier this year. |
| 1:31.3 | In fact, it was late February. |
| 1:33.1 | I was actually in California. |
| 1:35.6 | And we did a live event at Stanford University where we recorded a conversation before a crowd, |
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