Tony Schwartz: A New Way of Working Tour June 17, 2010

TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE WORK
The New Rules of Engagement

Demand in our lives is increasing relentlessly. Our capacity isn't keeping pace. Far too many organizations expect their employees to operate in the same way that computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time.

It's a prescription for failure. We're at our best when we move between periods of expending energy and intermittently renewing our four energy needs: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); self-expression (mental); and significance (spiritual). The better those needs are met, the more value we're capable of creating. Time is finite, but we can expand and renew our energy across all four dimensions of our lives.

The primary value exchange between employees and employers today is time for money. Each seeks to get as much of the other's resource as possible. It's a thin, one-dimensional transaction that serves neither side well. Rather than trying to get more out of their employees, employers are better served by meeting people's multi-dimensional needs, so they're freed, fueled and motivated to bring the best of themselves to work every day.

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Speaker:
Tony Schwartz is President and CEO of The Energy Project, a company that helps individuals and organizations fuel energy, engagement, focus and productivity by harnessing the science of high performance. Tony has spent 30 years studying, writing about, teaching and coaching people in how to perform at their best. Tony's most recent book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, co-authored with Jim Loehr, was a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 28 languages. Tony's new book, The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs that Energize Great Performance, is due out in May 2010.

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