In a slump on the job? Take a two- or three-week break by assuming a new, temporary role, suggests Luke Rhinehart in
The Book of the Die: A Handbook of Dice Living (Overlook Press). “No matter how well a man may be performing a job, it is likely he will come to perform it better if he works at another job in the organization,” Rhinehart writes. “He will have a better feel for how his job works in the order of things.”