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:

…most of us tend to become fixed in our habits and practices, even when they’re suboptimal.

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

Human beings… need to meet four energy needs to operate at their best: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

The ultimate measure of our effectiveness is the value we create. The ultimate measure of our satisfaction is the value we feel. The ultimate measure of our character is the values we embody.

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

The primary value exchange between most employers and employees today is time for money. It’s a thin, one-dimensional transaction.

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

We take too little responsibility for addressing our core needs, and we dissipate too much energy in blame, complaint, and finger-pointing.

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

We fail to take care of ourselves even though the consequence is that we end up undermining our health, happiness, and productivity.

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

Most organizations enable our dysfunctional behaviors and even encourage them through policies, practices, reward systems and cultural messages that serve to drain our energy and run down our value over time.

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

When the primary value exchange is time for money, people are fungible – units that can be replaced by other units.

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

An increasing number of organizations pay lip service to the notion that ‘people are our greatest asset.’

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The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working:

Beyond survival, our needs begin at the physical level with sustainability. Four factors are key: nutrition, fitness, sleep, and rest.

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