Tony Schwartz has become a National Treasure, the champion of a new source of renewable energy—ourselves! The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working is a great combination of engaging intellectual foundations, intriguing research findings, and truly practical advice. It’s a veritable handbook for putting each of us on a more engaged, more productive, more satisfying—more energetic!—life course.
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Robert Kegan, PhD, Harvard School of Education, co-author of Immunity to Change
THE WAY WE'RE WORKING ISN'T WORKINGSatisfying the Four Needs That Energize Great Performance The way we're working isn't working. More than 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. THE WAY WE'RE WORKING ISN'T WORKING: The Four Forgotten Needs that Energize Great Performance makes a compelling case for a new kind of workplace, a better way of working and a more deeply satisfying way of life. Employers and employees alike share an unspoken assumption that human beings are capable of operating in the same way computers do: continuously, at ever higher speeds, running multiple programs at the same time. In fact, we're designed to pulse. We're more productive and more satisfied when we move rhythmically between spending and renewing energy to meet our four key needs: physical, emotional, mental (self-expression) and spiritual (significance). A truly original, research-based approach to helping people to become more focused and more productive, THE WAY WE'RE WORKING ISN'T WORKING provides an integrated set of solutions to the personal energy crisis we're all experiencing. Tony Schwartz and the Energy Project |
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