The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working offers us an engaging, thorough, and authoritative manual for optimal performance and for a rewarding life. Tony Schwartz has done it again – a business must-read.
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(previously published as The Way We're Working Isn't Working)
Available in stores everywhere -- Order nowDaniel Goleman, Author, Emotional Intelligence
I’ve read dozens of books about leadership and management. What makes this book unique and essential is the integrated and comprehensive way it addresses the challenge of getting the best from people. The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working lays out a compelling new workplace paradigm and a detailed roadmap for organizations, leaders and individuals seeking to gain true competitive advantage.
Tony Hseih, CEO, Zappos.com
The transformative power of this work lies in its ability to help very smart and already high-performing people change their current behaviors to be even more effective, fulfilled and connected to others. It is intellectually engaging because it's based on hard research from various scientific disciplines, and provides different frames of reference and new ways to look at old problems. It delivers results because of the specific process of creating and practicing more effective behaviors through rituals, which eventually become virtuous habits. The foundations of good leadership are self-awareness and thoughtful action, and the ideas in this book can be truly life-changing for both.
Evan Wittenberg, Head of Global Leadership Development, Google Inc.
Integrating our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual lives really enables “one life” and our life's work. Thank you Tony!
Alan Mulally, President and CEO, Ford Motor Company
There's one compelling reason to read The Way We're Working Isn't Working- it works! The 100 senior leaders at the LAPD took the course on which the book is based, and while we were doubtful at first, we became believers and beneficiaries.
Bill Bratton, Former Police Chief, LAPD
For two decades, Tony Schwartz has been observing, reporting, and teaching the fundamentals of performance in every arena where excellence matters -- from playing fields to corporate boardrooms. His new book looks at the reasons why working harder doesn't translate to working better. Backed by research and his own case studies, he offers a path to better results and higher rewards that should be hugely valuable to individuals and organizations alike.
Susan Lyne, CEO, Gilt Groupe
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.
Robert Kegan, PhD, Harvard School of Education, co-author of Immunity to Change
Open heart surgery is demanding on every level. Before we understood the principles in The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working, our fight with exhaustion---physical, emotional, mental and spiritual--was a daily battle. Today, managing our energy – and regularly renewing it -- has become a guiding principle for all the members of my operating room team. The principles and practices in this book have truly changed my life. They will increase your productivity and leave you more energized and more satisfied than you’ve ever been before.
Mark Gillinov, M.D., Cardiovascular Surgeon, Cleveland Clinic
In this wonderful book, Tony Schwartz confronts the assumptions that are driving our lives and increasingly the lives of our children. His vision of an energized life lived in rhythm with our bodies and our minds, informed by research from all sorts of disciplines--cognitive science, neuroscience, psychology and medicine, makes a compelling argument to lead more effective rather than merely more productive lives. I believe that his work with our school has pointed to ways in which both students and teachers can change their lives for the better.
Dominic A.A. Randolph, Head of School, Riverdale Country School
A fantastic book. The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working can bring a much needed shot in the arm to people’s search for effectiveness. Tony Schwartz and his colleagues have provided practical, easy applications that will improve performance, sustainability and an increased sense of well being, based on balance. This is wisdom from Kleiovoulos, the ancient Greek philosopher, “Παν μετρον αριστον,” roughly translated as, “Nothing too much."
Prof. Richard Boyatzis, co-author of Primal Leadership
Now, more than ever, we need a unified science of energy--what makes us work (and what doesn't.) The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working begins to unlock essential insights we're going to need to get more done and feel better while we're doing it.
Seth Godin, Bestsellng Author, Blogger and Entrepreneur
