The transformative power of this work lies in its ability to help very smart and already high-performing people change their current behaviors to be even more effective, fulfilled and connected to others. It is intellectually engaging because it's based on hard research from various scientific disciplines, and provides different frames of reference and new ways to look at old problems. It delivers results because of the specific process of creating and practicing more effective behaviors through rituals, which eventually become virtuous habits. The foundations of good leadership are self-awareness and thoughtful action, and the ideas in this book can be truly life-changing for both.
The Energy Project Books
Be Excellent at Anything:
The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live
(previously published as The Way We're Working Isn't Working)
Evan Wittenberg, Head of Global Leadership Development, Google Inc.
Be Excellent at Anything makes a compelling case for a new kind of workplace, a better way of working and a more deeply satisfying way of life. Employers and employees alike share an unspoken assumption that human beings are capable of operating in the same way computers do: continuously, at ever higher speeds, running multiple programs at the same time. In fact, we're designed to pulse. We're more productive and more satisfied when we move rhythmically between spending and renewing our energy across four dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
The Power of Full Engagement:
Managing Energy Not Time is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
At last there's a book that takes on an endemic problem in American life: why do we never have enough time and energy for the things that matter most? In lucid, transparent, and elegant prose, the authors lay out a coherent solution with unassailable logic. I can¹t imagine any person who won't find a mirror image in every section of this book.
Betty Edwards, Author, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, available in 28 languages! Own the breakout bestseller that introduced managing energy instead of time to the world.
What Really Matters:
Searching for Wisdom in America
Finally, a book that lives up to its title. What Really Matters is nothing less than a modern-day Pilgrim’s Progress. What an adventure, but even more, a challenge as we plot our own life’s way.
F. Forrester Church, Late Pastor, All Souls Church, New York City
For five years, The Energy Project CEO, Tony Schwartz, travelled around the United States searching for answers to one of life's deepest question: What is a truly meaningful and complete life, and who's figured out how to live it? The result is an invaluable guide to the best teachers and techniques for self-discovery and self-improvement.
