Work How You Are Wired: 12 Data-Driven Steps to Finding a Job You Love
William Vanderbloemen
HarperCollins Leadership/An Imprint of HarperCollins (October 2025)

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t love your job, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford

In a prvious book,  Be the Unicorn, William Vanderbloemen examines the defining characteractistics of a unicorn. That is, a “mythically” valuable, successful, irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind leader. Based on more than thirty thousand face-to-face interviews that he conducted or reviewed, William Vanderbloemen identifies a dozen traits and habits that are teachable. He devotes a separate chapter to each. Here they are:

o Fast (Pages 1-17)
o Authentic (19-37)
o Agile (39-51)
o Problem Solver (53-67)
o Anticipator (69-83)
o Prepared (83-94)
o Self-Aware (95-114)
o Curious (115-130)
o Connected (131-151)
o Likable (153-171)
o Productive (173-186)
o Purpose Driven (187-201)

“The common denominator is that all of these happily employed people I spoke to and researched had figured out who they are band what kin of a job would best suit them.They discovered the conditions and factors that made them happy and found a career that aligns with their strengths.”

Three points of clarification. First, these are desirable traits and habits but –obviously — no human being possesses all of them at maximum strength and/or to full dvelopment. Next, Vanderbloemen wrote this book in order to help those who read it to focus on accelerating their personal growth and professional development. How? Check out the case studies, “reports from the Unicorns,” and a set of “Takeaways” at the end of each chapter. Improvement is a process, not a destination, and should be never-ending.

In his latest book, Work How You Are Wired, Vanderbloemen returns to the same personality types when explaining how almost anyone can “discern where they can apply the right formula for their own personal happiness and success.”

Keep in mind that that the ultimate value of the material that William Vanderbloemen provides will be determined by how carefully you process and digest that material, and then how effectively you adopt and apply it to your own needs, interests, and opportunities.

Here are two suggestions while you are reading Work How You Are Wired: First, highlight key passages. Also,  perhaps in a notebook kept near-at-hand (e.g. Apica Premium C.D. Notebook A5), record your comments, questions, and action steps (preferably with deadlines). Pay special attention to dozens of lists of key points that are strategically located throughoput thd lively narrative,such

These two simple tactics — highlighting and documenting — will expedite frequent reviews of key material later.