Schwartz, Tony, 1952-

The way we're working isn't working : the four forgotten needs that energize great performance / Way we are working is not working Tony Schwartz, with Jean Gomes and Catherine McCarthy. - 1st Free Press hardcover ed. - New York : Free Press, c2010. - xi, 334 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm.

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.

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Performance.
Work--Psychological aspects.
Organizational effectiveness.
Personnel management.

HF5549.5 / .S39 2010

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