The concept is actually similar to another book I recently read - Mood Mapping - where various states are explained in four-quadrant graphs. This book makes so much sense - it's frustrating that these principles aren't understood widely and incorporated into our lives and culture. "Be Excellent at Anything "offers individuals, leaders, and organizations a highly practical, proven set of strategies to better manage the relentlessly rising demands we all face in an increasingly complex world. At the organizational level, he outlines new policies, practices, and cultural messages that Schwartz's client companies have adopted. At the individual level, he explains how we can build specific rituals into our daily schedules to balance intense effort with regular renewal offset emotionally draining experiences with practices that fuel resilience move between a narrow focus on urgent demands and more strategic, creative thinking and balance a short-term focus on immediate results with a values-driven commitment to serving the greater good. Instead they should seek systematically to meet their four core needs so they're freed, fueled, and inspired to bring the best of themselves to work every day.ĭrawing 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. Organizations undermine sustainable high performance by forever seeking to get more out of their people. Rather than running like computers at high speeds for long periods, we're at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our four needs. "Be Excellent at Anything "offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so we're both more satisfied and more productive-on the job and off.īy integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor of the #1 bestselling "The Power of Full Engagement, "makes a persuasive case that we're neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability (physical) security (emotional) self-expression (mental) and significance (spiritual). Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. The ethic of "more, bigger, faster" exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. "Be Excellent at Anything "is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.
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