Work has changed.
The next step is yours to choose.
For people, leaders and organisations ready to understand what has changed, distinguish personal choices from systemic problems and make better decisions about what comes next.
to action.One book. Two practical plans.
Different challenges. Better questions.
You don't need another motivational speech. You need to understand what is happening — and the judgement to decide what to do about it.
When work starts taking over.
Make sense of the strain, separate your identity from your job and assess whether to stay, renegotiate or move on.
For employees 02 / LEADERSHIPWhen leadership demands more than control.
Build clarity, trust and autonomy without making your team pay for flaws in the way work is designed.
For leaders 03 / ORGANISATIONSWhen growth demands a different deal.
Bring people, purpose, commercial performance and pride into the same conversation — without exhausting the people who make progress possible.
For organisationsOne page. A question worth asking.
A passage from the book, a question to consider and one practical next step. Something different each day.
One new perspective each day. Open today’s page to uncover it.
Reveal today’s pagewaiting for you. ONE PASSAGE. ONE QUESTION. ONE NEXT STEP. DISCOVER ↗
CONTRAPONTO EDITORES / 2026It does not end
on the last page.
It starts with what you do next.
This book helps explain the patterns that wear us down — and gives us a way to challenge them, rather than keep adapting to them.
Two QR codes inside the book give readers access to an Individual Action Plan and a Leadership Plan.
Insight is only the beginning.
Change takes action.
Explore all 14 chapters ↗Before the next move,
there is a book worth opening.
Available from FNAC, Bertrand and WOOK. The book is published in Portuguese; delivery options depend on the retailer and destination.
“Some books try to offer quick answers. This is not one of them. And that is a good thing.”
MIGUEL PINA MARTINS / AFTERWORD
The book met its readers. Watch a moment from Lisbon, then find your photos.
Find & download your photoTen voices. A wider conversation.
Ten contributors bring their own experience to the questions at the heart of the book.
“Some people have a gift for turning intention into action, simply through who they are.”
ANA PINTO
Select a name to explore a perspective. On mobile, swipe to browse.
Read the full afterword contributions alongside reflections from readers.
Ideas that challenge the familiar.
Your job is not your identity.
A reflection on what happens when our sense of worth becomes dependent on our job title.
READ THE ESSAY ↗A NEW HUMAN CONTRACT / THE FOUR PsThe future of work needs people and performance.
People, Purpose, Profit and Pride: four tests of whether performance can last without eroding the people behind it.
DISCOVER THE FOUR Ps ↗