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Simon and Schuster
May 2010
On Sale: May 18, 2010
354 pages
ISBN: 1439127662
EAN: 9781439127667
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The Way We're Working Isn't Working is one of those rare
books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work
and live. Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of "more,
bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious
costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity,
and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world
feel disengaged at work every day. The Way We're Working
Isn't Working offers a groundbreaking approach to
reenergizing our lives so we're both more satisfied and more
productive-on the job and off. By integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science
of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor of the #1
bestselling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive
case that we're neglecting the four core needs that energize
great performance: sustainability (physical); security
(emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance
(spiritual). Rather than running like computers at high
speeds for long periods, we're at our best when we pulse
rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy
across each of our four needs. Organizations undermine sustainable high performance by
forever seeking to get more out of their people. Instead
they should seek systematically to meet their four core
needs so they're freed, fueled, and inspired to bring the
best of themselves to work every day. Drawing on extensive work with an extra-ordinary range of
organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young,
Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the
Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way
of working. At the individual level, he explains how we can
build specific rituals into our daily schedules to balance
intense effort with regular renewal; offset emotionally
draining experiences with practices that fuel resilience;
move between a narrow focus on urgent demands and more
strategic, creative thinking; and balance a short-term focus
on immediate results with a values-driven commitment to
serving the greater good. At the organizational level, he
outlines new policies, practices, and cultural messages that
Schwartz's client companies have adopted. The Way We're Working Isn't Working offers individuals,
leaders, and organizations a highly practical, proven set of
strategies to better manage the relentlessly rising demands
we all face in an increasingly complex world.
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