Be Excellent at Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live - Brossura

Schwartz, Tony; McCarthy PhD., Catherine

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ISBN 10: 0857200488 ISBN 13: 9780857200488

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2010

Riassunto

Through his years of intensive work consulting to companies including Procter & Gamble, Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, Ford and Ernst & Young, with his firm The Energy Project, Schwartz has developed a powerful program for changing the way we are working that greatly boosts our engagement and our satisfication with our work and increases our performance. In this book he marshalls a wide range of powerful evidence from business research and psychology that shows that the current model of work -- in which people are treated essentially as machines that should be able to perform at top speed for extraordinarily long hours, be able to multi-task, be always accessible and online, withstand often harsh and emotionally punishing treatment, and be primarily driven by the need to make profits -- is not only not optimal, it is specfically counter-productive because it saps us of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy. In order for us to perform at our best, we must make a set of key changes in our work lives -- and in order to develop the full potential of their work force, our managers and companies must institute changes that will provide us with the regular physical renewal, emotional reward, mental focus and stimulation; and sense of purpose and significance that we need.

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L'autore:

Tony Schwartz is the founder and president of The Energy Project, a consulting group that works with a number of Fortune 500 companies. He was a reporter for the New York Times, an associate editor at Newsweek, and a staff writer for New York Magazine and Esquire and a columnist for Fast Company.

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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. 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.
Drawing on findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, co-author of bestselling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that we're neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability; security; self-expression, and significance.
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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Self-help
978-0-85720-048-8
Simon & Schuster UK

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0857200488
• ISBN 13: 9780857200488
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352