NEXT!
The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work
by Joanne Lipman
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HarperCollins / Mariner
3/21/23
Nonfiction / Business
Empowerment / Success
Hardcover, 336 pages
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"...the book everyone needs right now—inspiration to embrace change and a push to take control of your future.”
-Katie Couric
“Success and well-being depend on learning to anticipate and ride waves of change instead of being knocked over by them...Lipman has spent much of her career honing that skill, and her engaging book is filled with useful ideas for rethinking your next steps.”
-Adam Grant
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Next! is a deeply reported guide to navigating change in how you live, work, and lead, and to finding your purpose. It taps into the current moment, at a time when so many of us are burned out and seeking a more meaningful life or career.
Lipman uses stories of personal transformations. and illuminates them with insights from neuroscientists, psychologists, and other experts to explain why and how transformations succeed. She reveals the three key steps that lead to transformative change — and explodes the three myths that can derail it.
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 begs the question:
What’s next—and how do I get there?
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Dear Reader,
Three years ago, the world shook when the pandemic hit. Today, we're still searching for the "new normal," as we rethink lives, careers, and priorities. It's prompted an urgent need to pivot, to ask: What's next—and how do we get there?
Next! takes us inside extraordinary career reinventions, personal transformations, and remarkable stories of failures turned into successes. I profile a diverse group of people who have transformed their lives, from novelist James Patterson (former ad exec) to Barefoot Contessa Ina Garten (former budget analyst) to a trial lawyer turned TikTok phenom and a stay-at-home mom turned CEO.
I also include my own experiences in personal and professional transformation, both as a pioneering newsroom leader, as former editor-in-chief of USA Today and The Wall Street Journal Weekend, and as a mom who has survived breast cancer. As someone who has led—and lived through —massive changes myself, I have a special passion for sharing what I’ve learned about what it takes to navigate change. I’ve called on all of my reporting skills and personal experience to create a toolkit for successful change that I can’t wait to share with you.
Warmly,
Joanne Lipman
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NEXT! Book Club Menu and Recipe
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In Next! I profile three different chefs—all of whom started out in very different fields. Enjoy some of their signature dishes and drinks with your book club!
Ina Garten, Barefoot Contessa: Ina Garten started her career as a young budget analyst working for the White House, who loved to throw dinner parties on weekends. But while her job seemed glamorous, it was unfulfilling. And so, when she saw an ad for a tiny specialty food shop called The Barefoot Contessa—and was encouraged by her husband to follow her passion—she bought it. Ultimately she turned it into an A-list destination, became a food celebrity herself, and after selling the store, reinvented herself again as a bestselling cookbook author.
Beatty's Chocolate Cake: Ina's signature cake—"It's so chocolatey and the secret is a cup of hot coffee in the batter," writes Ina.
Perfect Roast Chicken: Ina's husband Jeffrey's favorite Friday night dinner.
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Joanne Lee Molinaro, The Korean Vegan: Joanne Lee Molinaro is a forty-something Chicago trial lawyer. During the pandemic, simply to blow off steam and relieve the stress of the shutdown, she began posting TikTok videos of her cooking vegan recipes, often backed by a soothing classical piano soundtrack played by her pianist husband. It was a hobby, nothing more, posted under the nickname her husband gave her, "The Korean Vegan." But her TikTok videos went viral. She ultimately became so popular she quit law, wrote a bestselling cookbook, and turned The Korean Vegan into a full-time occupation.
Vegan Egg and Tofu Katsu Sandwich: Joanne featured this recipe in an early viral video that helped make her name.
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Danny Meyer, founder of Union Square Hospitality Group: Meyer was obsessed with food from a young age, yet never imagined a culinary career. As a young man, he planned to go to law school. But the night before his entrance exams, he had dinner with his aunt and uncle at a Manhattan restaurant. That's when his uncle said to him, "Since you were a child, all you've ever talked or thought about is food. Why don't you just open a restaurant?" That moment changed his life. Danny never went to law school. Instead, he went on to create high-end restaurants including Union Square Cafe, Eleven Madison Park, and The Modern, where unique cocktails are a specialty of the house. as well as the fast-casual burger chain Shake Shack.
Union Square Cafe Rosemary Nuts: A fixture at the Union Square Cafe bar for over twenty years.
The Madison Parksider: The signature cocktail at Eleven Madison Park.
-Joanne Lipman
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