Book Titles

The relentless urgency that characterizes most corporate cultures undermines creativity, quality, engagement, thoughtful deliberation, and, ultimately, performance.

No matter how much value we produce today – whether it’s measured in dollars or sales or goods or widgets – it’s never enough.

The ethic of more, bigger, faster generates value that is narrow, shallow, and short term. More and more, paradoxically, leads to less and less.

More than a hundred studies have demonstrated some correlation between employee engagement and business performance.

The real issue is not the number of hours we sit behind a desk but the energy we bring to the work we do and the value we generate as a result.

A growing body of research suggests that we’re most productive when we move between periods of high focus and intermittent rest.

Unlike computers, human beings have the potential to grow and develop, to increase our depth, complexity and capacity over time. To make that possible, we must manage ourselves far more skillfully than we do now.

…by living mostly desk-bound sedentary lives, we expend too little physical energy and grow progressively weaker. Inactivity takes a toll not just on our bodies, but also on how we feel and how we think.

In fields ranging from sports to chess, researchers have found that four hours a day is the maximum that the best performers practice.

…if you’re not actively working to get better at what you do, there’s a good chance you’re getting worse, no matter what the quality of your initial training may have been.