Book Titles

The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working
The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance

By Tony Schwartz

Year Published: 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1439127667
Categories: Energy, Needs, Performance

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

Verification is the difference between a clever hypothesis or intuition and a solution that reliably and enduringly changes lives.

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In most organizations, the expectation of instantaneous responsiveness pushes everyone into reactive mode, making it difficult to stick to any agenda.

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Nearly all of the research suggests that the costs of working in [open] offices far outweigh the benefits.

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The… key to innovation is a culture that prizes learning and truly invests in it.

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Any organization that fails to build a robust learning program… ought to expect that its people won’t get better at their jobs over time and may well get worse.

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…employees are often uncertain what exactly is expected of them.

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Creating clear goals and deliverables is what makes it possible to truly hold people accountable.

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Once you’ve arrived at the metrics for a given job, the number of hours people work, or how they choose to do their job should become secondary.

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The ideal work schedule looks different for each of us, given the vast differences in people’s temperaments and life circumstances.

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When employees are given the opportunity to design workdays that better suit their needs… evidence demonstrates – that they perform at significantly higher levels.

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