Only 3 stars. It's not as good as her first book about cleaning your home. It's not a bad book, but it did have some shortcomings.

first of all, Marie wrote only a small part of this book. The largest part was written/told by a man named Scott. And his parts were not as good as Marie's parts. Okay, they were okay, but he did my big no-no's for a self-help book.

1. It was too cluttered. He took up so many different areas of work. Yes, work involves a bunch of stuff, but you need to focus on certain areas, you need to kill your darlings. even if some of what he talked about was interesting, not everything was universal, it did not apply for every person. He talked about stuff only a boss would need, and then if you work in groups, and some parts were very office oriented. I could not relate to it all, and so it was hard to find energy to focus on his parts because so much was not for me, and I could not understand when it was or wasn't because it all went into each other.

2. It did not feel genuine. I do not now if Scott usually talk or write about sparking joy but he talked about it so much but it felt like he just used Marie's concept and tried to force it into his own teachings. He talked about sparking joy for so much stuff, and I just felt like he used it because that was the name of the book, not because he really used it normally.

3. a bunch of stuff was not that interesting. Sorry, but it was not that revolutionary. Even Marie's parts. she mostly just talked about what she already has gone into more depth in her earlier book about cleaning, and what Scott wrote about I can find on so many other places. Nothing that was a wow moment.

The things I did enjoy was to listen to the parts Marie had written. even though it did not feel new, I like her unique way of looking at the world. I also found Scott's parts about meetings to be kind of good. Sure, a lot of it the normal employe cannot do anything about, but it's good to think about if a meeting is for you, and what can be done to make it more effective.

It was an okay book. If I would have known Marie had such a small part, I probably would not have read it at all actually.

However, the last chapter by Marie about how she and her husband structure their work lives was really good and I could have seen a whole book about that. I wanted to have a deep dive in the three steps they do to structure.
Also, a book about being a working parent and keeping a clean home with children would have been awesome. I am not a parent, but the short paragraph about how she had trouble keeping clean with small children, that made me excited. Felt like something a bunch of people would be interested in, how to do small things to keep it structured in your home with children.