More, Bigger, Faster, Tony Schwartz, Talks at Google

Demand is exceeding our capacity. The ethic of more, bigger, faster exacts a series of silent but pernicious costs at work, undermining our energy, focus, creativity, and passion. Nearly 75 percent of employees around the world feel disengaged at work every day. The Way We re Working Isn t Working offers a groundbreaking approach to reenergizing our lives so we re both more satisfied and more productiveon the job and off. By integrating multidisciplinary findings from the science of high performance, Tony Schwartz, coauthor of the, 1 bestselling The Power of Full Engagement, makes a persuasive case that we re neglecting the four core needs that energize great performance: sustainability (physical); security (emotional); selfexpression (mental); and significance (spiritual). Rather than running like computers at high speeds for long periods, we re at our best when we pulse rhythmically between expending and regularly renewing energy across each of our fou