The Way We're Working Isn't Working

Through his years of intensive work consulting to companies including Procter & Gamble, Sony, Toyota, Microsoft, Ford, and Ernst & Young with his firm The Energy Project, Schwartz has developed a powerful program for changing the way we work that greatly boosts our engagement and satisfaction with our work and increases our performance. In this book, he marshals a wide range of powerful evidence from business research and psychology that shows that the current model of work—in which people are treated essentially as machines that should be able to perform at top speed for extraordinarily long hours, be able to multi-task, be always accessible and online, withstand often harsh and emotionally punishing treatment, and be primarily driven by the need to make profits—is not only not optimal, it is specifically counterproductive because it saps us of our physical and emotional well-being.