Synopses & Reviews
You work hard. You put in the hours. Yet you feel like you are constantly treading water with "Good Work" that keeps you going but never quite moves you ahead. Or worse, you are mired in "Bad Work"--endless meetings and energy-draining bureaucratic traps.
Do More Great Work gets to the heart of the problem: Even the best performers are spending less than a fraction of their time doing "Great Work"--the kind of innovative work that pushes us forward, stretches our creativity, and truly satisfies us. Michael Bungay Stanier, Canadian Coach of the Year in 2006, is a business consultant who's found a way to move us away from bad work (and even good work), and toward more time spent doing great work.
When you're up to your eyeballs answering e-mail, returning phone calls, attending meetings and scrambling to get that project done, you can turn to this inspirational, motivating, and at times playful book for invaluable guidance. In fifteen exercises, Do More Great Work shows how you can finally do more of the work that engages and challenges you, that has a real impact, that plays to your strengths--and that matters.
The exercises are "maps"--brilliantly simple visual tools that help you find, start and sustain Great Work, revealing how to:
- Find clues to your own Great Work--they're all around you
- Locate the sweet spot between what you want to do and what your organization wants you to do
- Generate new ideas and possibilities quickly
- Best manage your overwhelming workload
- Double the likelihood that you'll do what you want to do
All it takes is ten minutes a day, a pencil and a willingness to change.
Do More Great Work will not only help you identify what the Great Work of your life is, it will tell you how to do it.
Review
"If I had to pick a person to have dinner with, when I need to be prodded and challenged..., I'd pick Michael Bungay Stanier. He has an ability to shake our tree and make us more conscious and responsible. And the best part--he makes it easy and fun."
--David Allen, bestselling author of the Getting Things Done
Review
"This book may be little but the idea is big.
Do More Great Work will help you think bigger about who you are and what you offer the world."
--Michael Port, author of The Think Big Manifesto and The Contrarian Effect
Review
"Great work really does come in small packages! This little book is a dynamo of 'great work truths.'"
--Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You There Won't Get You Here
Synopsis
An inspiration book uses 12 short, visual exercises called "Maps" that provoke thought and help the reader to figure out how to do more "great work," the type of creative work that moves a business forward. Original.
Synopsis
A self-coaching book that helps you find challenging, fulfilling, and impactful work "in a manner similar to What Color Is Your Parachute?" (Seattle Pi). When you're up to your eyeballs answering emails, returning phone calls, attending meetings, and scrambling to get that project done, you can turn to this inspirational, motivating, and at times playful book for invaluable guidance. In fifteen exercises,
Do More Great Work shows how you can finally do more of the work that pushes you forward, stretches your creativity, and truly satisfies you.
The exercises are "maps"--brilliantly simple visual tools that help you find, start, and sustain Great Work, revealing how to:
- Find clues to your own Great Work--they're all around you
- Locate the sweet spot between what you want to do and what your organization wants you to do
- Generate new ideas and possibilities quickly
- Best manage your overwhelming workload
- Double the likelihood that you'll do what you want to do
All it takes is ten minutes a day, a pencil, and a willingness to change.
Do More Great Work will not only help you identify what the Great Work of your life is, it will tell you how to do it.
"Great work really does come in small packages This little book is a dynamo of 'great work truths.'" --Marshall Goldsmith, #1
New York Times-bestselling author of
Triggers " Stanier] has an ability to shake our tree and make us more conscious and responsible. And the best part--he makes it easy and fun." --David Allen,
New York Times-bestselling author of
Getting Things Done About the Author
Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and senior partner of Box of Crayons, a company that works with organizations, ranging from AstraZeneca to Xerox, to help them do more great work. A Rhodes scholar who earned both arts and law degrees with highest honors from Australian National University and an MPhil from Oxford, he is a popular speaker at business and coaching conferences, and was named Canadian Coach of the Year in 2006. He lives in Toronto.
SETH GODIN is a bestselling author, entrepreneur and agent of change. His book Permission Marketing was an Amazon.com Top 100 bestseller for a year, a Fortune Best Business Book and it spent four months on the Business Week bestseller list. It also appeared on The New York Times business book bestseller list. He lives in Westchester County, New York.