- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (8 July 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0857200488
- ISBN-13: 978-0857200488
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 147,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Through his years of intensive work consulting to companies including Procter & Gamble, Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, Ford and Ernst & Young, with his firm The Energy Project, Schwartz has developed a powerful program for changing the way we are working that greatly boosts our engagement and our satisfication with our work and increases our performance. In this book he marshalls a wide range of powerful evidence from business research and psychology that shows that the current model of work -- in which people are treated essentially as machines that should be able to perform at top speed for extraordinarily long hours, be able to multi-task, be always accessible and online, withstand often harsh and emotionally punishing treatment, and be primarily driven by the need to make profits -- is not only not optimal, it is specfically counter-productive because it saps us of our physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energy. In order for us to perform at our best, we must make a set of key changes in our work lives -- and in order to develop the full potential of their work force, our managers and companies must institute changes that will provide us with the regular physical renewal, emotional reward, mental focus and stimulation; and sense of purpose and significance that we need.
About the Author
Tony Schwartz is the founder and president of The Energy Project, a consulting group that works with a number of Fortune 500 companies. He was a reporter for the New York Times, an associate editor at Newsweek, and a staff writer for New York Magazine and Esquire and a columnist for Fast Company. Jean Gomes is Managing Director of DPA, a London-based management consultancy specialising in leadership and culture change. He is also Chairman of The Energy Project Europe.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a really interesting read especially if you're under the hammer at work and feel burned out.
The workplace has changed radically in the last 25 years. Our response to this is to work longer and longer hours, neglect our diet,exercise,family/personal time and the reality is that by working in this way we probably achieve less and perform poorly.
I don't believe that an athlete would run faster if he ran the same race over and over again without recovery
Nor would an F1 car with a single set of tyres/breaks be as fast on Lap 50 as 1-10
Quality over quantity? Makes sense to me! We work best when our energy is at its highest and this book will show you how to renew and increase energy.
If like me you're an employee who's wasted his kids childhood working late at the office or staring at a blackberry during the night or on holiday....read this book!
If you're an employer with staff like that...shame on you!....Buy the book and HELP THEM...you'll see the benefit!
The workplace has changed radically in the last 25 years. Our response to this is to work longer and longer hours, neglect our diet,exercise,family/personal time and the reality is that by working in this way we probably achieve less and perform poorly.
I don't believe that an athlete would run faster if he ran the same race over and over again without recovery
Nor would an F1 car with a single set of tyres/breaks be as fast on Lap 50 as 1-10
Quality over quantity? Makes sense to me! We work best when our energy is at its highest and this book will show you how to renew and increase energy.
If like me you're an employee who's wasted his kids childhood working late at the office or staring at a blackberry during the night or on holiday....read this book!
If you're an employer with staff like that...shame on you!....Buy the book and HELP THEM...you'll see the benefit!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having followed Schwartz/Gomes/McCarthy Energy Project for some time I am intrigued as to the impact this book will make on organisations and the individual. Broken down simply the concept is that time is finite, so the route to increasing capacity is through a managed approach to our energy needs. Whereas previous attempts at the subject have honed in solely on the physical and nutritional aspects; this book looks far beyond this demonstrating that energy can be optimised not just by our physical state, but also by our emotional one.
Life changing - potentially! I can commend this book to any individual seeking a way to avoid "Burn out" and increase their energy. For them this should be more than a "good read", it probably needs to become a "bible".
However, where the real power of this book could be harnessed is for an entire organisation to embrace the philosophy. It's been tried, but to my mind no organisation has yet created an energy optimised work force. Maybe just maybe this book may provoke some company to give it a real go - there's a competitive advantage out there for anyone who can successfully adopt it.
Life changing - potentially! I can commend this book to any individual seeking a way to avoid "Burn out" and increase their energy. For them this should be more than a "good read", it probably needs to become a "bible".
However, where the real power of this book could be harnessed is for an entire organisation to embrace the philosophy. It's been tried, but to my mind no organisation has yet created an energy optimised work force. Maybe just maybe this book may provoke some company to give it a real go - there's a competitive advantage out there for anyone who can successfully adopt it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It's taken me a little longer to read than a normal book because i thought i'd put it to the test and live it. Having lived this over the past months i can truely say hand on heart this has changed the way i think about myself and the way i approach my working life. Right from the start, the book drew me in, I realised i was one of these working machinces that my company had created. I was in a trap of long hours, travelling, missing meals, no excercise with high demands to deliver results. This book really does emphasise the importance of recovery and the need to reflect and energise yourself to maintin peak performance.
Once you believe and accept the need to change, you simply have to do it. Having lived this i now practice and promote this in the workplace, the results are quite remarkable with the levels of engagement and performance clearly visible.
you don't survive and win by working longer hours you do this by being smarter, this book really does lay the foundations of doing just that.
his isn't just another management book that you put in the top drawer when you have finished reading it,it's the new way of working.
Once you believe and accept the need to change, you simply have to do it. Having lived this i now practice and promote this in the workplace, the results are quite remarkable with the levels of engagement and performance clearly visible.
you don't survive and win by working longer hours you do this by being smarter, this book really does lay the foundations of doing just that.
his isn't just another management book that you put in the top drawer when you have finished reading it,it's the new way of working.
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An OK read but not life changing
I'll start with a confession: I'm not a fan of management or self-help books, nor of management "gurus". Read more
Published 14 months ago by Marc d'Aboville
Working smarter not harder
I see this book as an essential manual - a How To book for leaders seeking better ways of working in these turbulent times. Read more
Published 22 months ago by David Cox
Great book
I have been fortunate enough to participate in the energy training 3 years ago. It has transformed my private and personal life. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Nicolas Babin
Building on the Breakthrough
Some books change people's mind sets. 'The Power of Full Engagement' by Tony Schwartz and Jim Loehr was such a book. The sub-title 'Managing Energy, Not Time ... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Mike Pegg
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