Do More Great Work
Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.
Published on 13. February 2010
200 pages
978-0-7611-5827-1 (ISBN)
Description
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
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02/2010
Workman Adult
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Person
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.
Leo Babauta has been a reporter, editor, speechwriter, and freelance writer for the last 17 years. He founded ZenHabits.net with no funding in January 2007, and one year later it is a top 50 blog with about a million unique visitors per month. Using the methods he shares in THE POWER OF LESS over the last two years, he's trained and successfully completed a marathon, he's doubled his income, he's eliminated his debt, he's quit smoking, and he's written a novel.
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.
Leo Babauta has been a reporter, editor, speechwriter, and freelance writer for the last 17 years. He founded ZenHabits.net with no funding in January 2007, and one year later it is a top 50 blog with about a million unique visitors per month. Using the methods he shares in THE POWER OF LESS over the last two years, he's trained and successfully completed a marathon, he's doubled his income, he's eliminated his debt, he's quit smoking, and he's written a novel.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- FOREWORD: Here's the Challenge
- PART 1: Laying the Foundation
- INTRODUCTION: Before You Get Going . . .
- MAP 1 Where Are You Now?: To get to a destination, you need to know your starting point
- PART 2: Seeds of Your Great Work
- MAP 2 What's Great?: Your past holds clues to your future Great Work
- MAP 3 What Are You Like at Your Best?: What Great and Not So Great look like
- MAP 4 Who's Great?: Tap the power of role models
- PART 3: Uncovering Your Great Work
- MAP 5 What's Calling You?: Scan your life for Great Work opportunities
- MAP 6 What's Broken?: What pains you can also inspire you
- MAP 7 What's Required?: Balance the competing demands of your life
- PART 4: Pick a Project
- MAP 8 What's the Best Choice?: This, that, or the other?
- PART 5: Create New Possibilities
- MAP 9 What's Possible?: Find the idea-generator within you
- MAP 10 What's the Right Ending?: Explore different ways forward
- MAP 11 How Courageous Are You?: Take it to 11
- PART 6: Your Great Work Plan
- MAP 12 What Will You Do?: Inspiration without action is just hot air
- MAP 13 What Support Do You Need?: Doing Great Work by yourself means it's not Great Work
- MAP 14 What's the Next Step?: Put the Do into Do More Great Work
- PART 7: Continuing Your Great Work Journey
- MAP 15 Lost Your Great Work Mojo?: When you wander off the path
- GREAT WORK RESOURCES: More Wisdom and Inspiration
