Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More Audiobook (Free)

Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller

A Financial Times Business Book from the Month

Named by The Washington Post among the 11 Leadership Books to learn in 2018

From the brand new York Times bestselling coauthor of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical guide to individual performance-based on analysis from an exhaustive, groundbreaking study.

Why do some individuals perform better at the job than others? This deceptively basic question continues to confound professionals in every sectors about Great at the job: How Best Performers Do Much less, Work Better, and Achieve Even more of the workforce. Now, after a unique, five-year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees, Morten Hansen reveals the answers in his “Seven Work Smarter Practices” that may be used by anyone looking to maximize their period and performance.

Each of Hansen’s seven methods is highlighted by inspiring tales from individuals in his in depth study. You’ll fulfill a high school principal who engineered a dramatic turnaround of his faltering senior high school; a rural Indian farmer established to establish a better way of life for women in his town; and a sushi chef, whose basic preparation has led to his restaurant (saved under a Tokyo subway train station underpass) being honored the utmost of three Michelin superstars. Hansen also explains how the method Alfred Hitchcock filmed Psycho as well as the 1911 competition to become the initial explorer to reach the South Pole both illustrate the usage of his seven methods (even before these were identified).

Each chapter contains questions and key insights to help you to assess your personal performance and find out your work strengths, as well as your weaknesses. Once you understand your individual style, a couple of mini-quizzes, questionnaires, and apparent tips to assist you focus on a strategy to become more productive employee. Extensive, available, and friendly, Great at Work can help you achieve more by working much less, backed by unprecedented statistical analysis.