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The way we're working isn't working : the four forgotten needs that energize great performance / Tony Schwartz, with Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Free Press, c2010.Edition: 1st hardcover edDescription: xi, 334 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781439127667
  • 1439127662
Other title:
  • Way we are working is not working
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.3/128 22
LOC classification:
  • HF5549.5.P37 S39 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
More and more, less and less -- We can't change what we don't notice -- We're creatures of habit -- Feeling the pulse -- Sleep or die -- Making waves -- Use it or lose it -- Less is more -- Creating a culture that pulses -- The war between the states -- If you ain't got pride, you ain't got nothin' -- The facts and the stories we tell -- A new value proposition -- A poverty of attention -- One thing at a time -- Cultivating the whole brain -- Autonomy for accountability -- Who are you, and what do you really want? -- We're all in this together -- Purpose for passion -- The big ideas.
Summary: Drawing on extensive work with an extra-ordinary range of organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way of working that focuses on four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability, security, self-expression, and significance.
Item type: Delbert W. Baker Special Leadership Collection
Holdings
Current library Collection Call number Vol info Status Date due Barcode
Judith Thomas Library Delbert W. Baker Special Leadership Collection DWB Special Leadership Collection HF 5549.5 .P37 S39 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AUA019267 Available AUA019267

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-315) and index.

More and more, less and less -- We can't change what we don't notice -- We're creatures of habit -- Feeling the pulse -- Sleep or die -- Making waves -- Use it or lose it -- Less is more -- Creating a culture that pulses -- The war between the states -- If you ain't got pride, you ain't got nothin' -- The facts and the stories we tell -- A new value proposition -- A poverty of attention -- One thing at a time -- Cultivating the whole brain -- Autonomy for accountability -- Who are you, and what do you really want? -- We're all in this together -- Purpose for passion -- The big ideas.

Drawing on extensive work with an extra-ordinary range of organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way of working that focuses on four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability, security, self-expression, and significance.