| Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters. |  | Author: Michael Bungay Stanier
Creators: Seth Godin, Michael Port, Dave Ulrich, Chris Guillebeau, Leo Babauta
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
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Pages: 200
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 6.7 x 0.6
ISBN: 0761156445
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Publication Date: February 22, 2010
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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.
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For those that seek inspiration, crave innovation, and want to extract more meaning from life February 26, 2010
Todd B. Kashdan
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is the second book that I purchased from Michael. Don't be deceived by the notion that this book is about being more innovative, energized, and productive in the workplace. By work, Michael is talking about living a life most worth living. He is talking about bringing the same enthusiasm that you have for Alaskan crab legs and flirtatious conversations with a loved one to every life domain.
I wonder where this book will appear in bookstores. Business book? Self-enhancement book? Psychology book? Do More Great Work transcends categories. I suspect that you are skeptical of these superlatives but I honestly do not take the time to write reviews unless an author inspired me. Michael does (again).
He prods, provokes, and challenges you to answer questions about your life that can often be uncomfortable. He gives you a playground of exercises to uncover values, strengths, and situations governing your behavior, and how to navigate with them to effectively emerge as a mindful, passionate leader.
I am purposely avoiding specific details about what is in the book because it is impossible to cover the broad terrain and I hesitate to emphasize small snippets out of context. There are dozens of questions and exercises that are useful on their own and even more powerfully together. None of these questions are silly, none of them are superfluous, and if you are receptive, this book has the potential to evoke meaningful change.
Are you content with mediocracy or do you want to do something profound with your limited time and stamina in the only life you will ever be given? If you want the latter, get this book. I stake my reputation on the line.
Todd Kashdan, Ph.D.
Author of Curious?: Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life
Review of 1st edition - Find Your Great Work February 10, 2010
Iopsych
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
"Find Your Great Work" is structured around a series of "maps" that can help you bring more "great" work into your life. The "maps" in this book seem at first glance to be quite simplistic, almost gimmicky. However, if you can get past the fact that they're "written" on a napkin, they seem quite powerful. This isn't the kind of book that you read once and put on a shelf. While the author might disagree, I would recommend reading the book from cover-to-cover once, without responding to the questions associated with each map, to help immerse yourself in the author's thinking. I believe this would be helpful in either returning to the beginning of the book to work with each map sequentially or before working with those maps that seem to speak to you. This book has the potential to affect your thinking in subtle as well as profound ways. In fact, in writing these comments, I realized that today I said something in a meeting of my direct reports that came straight from "Find Your Great Work" without my even realizing it. I look forward to continuing to work with the contents of this book to bring more great work into my life.
Small Package, Big Impact February 21, 2010
Michael Lee Stallard (Greenwich, CT)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Looks can be deceiving. At first glance, Do More Great Work by Michael Bungay Stanier looks like yet another small, simple, beautifully-designed book. Oftentimes, books of this sort lack anything new or insightful. A few pages in, however, I realized this book was an exception. Do More Great Work gets to the heart of the work each of us should aspire to do -- work that makes us feel fully alive and brings us joy. The author, who was named Canadian Coach of the Year in 2006, walks the reader through a series of maps and questions that provide valuable career guidance. As a result of reading this book, I made a change to my business so that I would do more great work and devote less time to merely good work. That's the measure of a valuable book: it changes the reader in a positive way. I'm happy to report that Do More Great Work met that standard for me and, as such, I highly recommend it.
Michael Lee Stallard,
Author: Fired Up or Burned Out.
Useful (and that says a lot) March 11, 2010
Michael J. Leckie (Stamford, CT)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have known Michael for over a decade and had the pleasure of working with him for several years. What I will say about this book is hopefully short and to the point, it is absolutely useful. I have seen and experienced the value his models and approach can have and continue to have. If you really take the time to work with this book you will find more value and usefulness than you might get with literally thousands of dollars worth of coaching. Invest the very small cost of the book, then invest the time, then pass it on to others.
Simply brilliant! February 2, 2010
Karen Wright (Toronto, Canada)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
If, as Seth Godin says, "Great work is art," then "Do More Great Work" is a Michael Bungay Stanier masterpiece - likely the first of many. The message is simple, useful and relevant for both individuals and leaders, and the exercises are provocative yet perfectly accessible. The fun presentation makes one want to pick it up, and the powerful questions generate flashes of insight that make you not want to put it down. In addition, Michael has surrounded the book with online materials that just keep giving. This is a terrific resource for anyone seeking greater satisfaction from their work, and a powerful tool for anyone who coaches or counsels in the career space. I've been giving them out to clients, with rave reviews. Nicely done!
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