This book was previously titled, Be Excellent at Anything.

The Way We’re Functioning Isn’t Functioning is one of those rare books with the power to profoundly transform the way we work and live.

Demand is definitely exceeding our capability. The ethic of ‘more, bigger, faster’ exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, concentrate, creativity, and passion. Almost 75 percent of workers around the world experience disengaged at the job every day. The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working gives about The Way We’re Functioning Isn’t Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives therefore we’re both more satisfied and even more productive-on the job and off.

By integrating multidisciplinary results from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor from the #1 bestselling THE ENERGY of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that we’re neglecting the four primary needs that energize great efficiency: sustainability (physical); security (psychological); self-expression (mental); and significance (religious). Instead of running like computers at high rates of speed for very long periods, we’re at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our four needs.

Companies undermine sustainable powerful by forever seeking to get more out of their people. Instead they should look for systematically to meet up their four primary needs so they’re freed, fueled, and influenced to bring the best of themselves to function every day.

Drawing on extensive use an extra-ordinary selection of organizations, included in this Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the LA Police Department, as well as the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz produces a road map for a new way of functioning. At the average person level, he points out how exactly we can build particular rituals into our day to day schedules to balance intense work with regular renewal; offset psychologically draining encounters with practices that gasoline resilience; move between a slim focus on urgent demands and more strategic, creative considering; and balance a short-term concentrate on immediate results having a values-driven commitment to serving the greater good. In the organizational level, he outlines new policies, procedures, and cultural messages that Schwartz’s customer companies have adopted.

JUST HOW We’re Working Isn’t Functioning 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.