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    Do More Great Work.: Stop the Busywork, and Start the Work that Matters

    By Michael Bungay Stanier

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    A self-coaching book that helps you find challenging, fulfilling, and impactful work “in a manner similar to What Color Is Your Parachute?” (Seattle Pi).

    When you’re up to your eyeballs answering emails, 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 pushes you forward, stretches your creativity, and truly satisfies you.

    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.

    “Great work really does come in small packages! This little book is a dynamo of ‘great work truths.’” —Marshall Goldsmith, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Triggers

    “[Stanier] has an ability to shake our tree and make us more conscious and responsible. And the best part—he makes it easy and fun.” —David Allen, New York Times–bestselling author of Getting Things Done
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 22, 2010
    ISBN9780761158271
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    Michael Bungay Stanier

    George Orwell said, “An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.” In that vein, Michael was banned from his high school graduation for “the balloon incident”, was sued by one of his Law School lecturers for defamation, and managed to give himself a concussion while digging a hole as a labourer...Luckily, there’s also been some upside. He is the author of a number of books, and the one he is best known for with 90,000 copies sold is Do More Great Work. However, the one he’s proudest of is End Malaria, a collection of articles about Great Work from thought leaders that’s raised about $400,000 for Malaria No More and reached #2 on Amazon.com.Michael also organized the Great Work MBA, a virtual conference featuring 30 world class speakers and which had more than 10,000 registered participants.All of this is done as founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons, a company that helps organizations do less Good Work and more Great Work. Their focus is on helping time-crunched managers coach in 10 minutes or less, and their Fortune 500 clients include TD Bank, Kraft, Gartner and VMWare.Michael is a well-regarded speaker, and as well as speaking to organizations he regularly keynotes at conferences such as HRPA, SHRM, CSTD, the Evanta HR Leadership series and The Conference Board of Canada. He’s known for sessions that are highly engaging, interactive and entertaining. And for his colourful Box of Crayons socks.Before Box of Crayons, Michael spent time inventing products and services as part of an innovation agency, and working as a management consultant on large scale change, where amongst other things he wrote the global vision for GlaxoSmithKline.Michael was a Rhodes Scholar and the first Canadian Coach of the Year.

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    • 5/5
      This is a very interactive book. Michael Bungay Stanier starts by describing the difference between Bad Work (work that is pointless), Good Work (necessary, sometimes engaging, and mundane), and Great Work (meaningful, has an impact, makes a difference; inspires, stretches, and provokes). He argues that we often don't make deliberate choices to do more great work. Instead we follow other people's priorities into Good Work or even Bad Work. To help us do more great work, Michael leads his readers through lots of introspective exercises to help them identify a great work project. In my management classes, I teach a little about how to find meaningful, intrinsically motivating work, and the principles in this book are very consistent with research evidence about meaningful work. But even though I've thought a lot about these ideas in theory, I learned a lot about myself when going through Michael's exercises. I definitely had some aha moments, and I appreciated the opportunity to think more about my own Great Work. Although I applied this book to my work, it definitely applies to all types of life roles. We can do more great work at home, at church, and in our communities.
    • 5/5
      Practical. Fun. Very insightful. I love his style. Just read it and do the exercises if you want to do more great work. Truly worth it.

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    • 4/5
      After hearing Michael Bungay Stanier talk about how to Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters on the GTD Virtual Study Group, I had to read the book. It took me awhile to and I have to say I am glad I finally did. It is a very disciplined approach to finding what work is one's true calling, or Great Work.Stanier contends there are three kinds of work: Bad, Good and Great. Bad work consists of those things we do that are a waste of time, energy and life. Good work is the familiar, useful, productive work we do day in and day out. Great work, however, is meaningful, has an impact and makes a difference. The idea is to eliminate bad work and spend more time on great work.The book is short, only a couple hundred pages. Stanier has sprinkled in coaching stories and 'guest posts' by noted luminaries such as Seth Godin, Penelope Trunk and Leo Babauta amongst his material. It reads much like a blog with interesting tidbits thrown in to spice it up.The stars of the show, of course, are the exercises. The book contains 15 maps designed to lead one through the process of discovering, defining, planning and executing their Great Work. Each exercise builds on the last and provides insight into the Great Work to be done.I have read several books that give exercises, questionnaires or other assignments throughout. I am not one who likes to take the time to stop reading and do as I'm told. I will often read straight through, promising myself I will go back after I finish and do the exercises. I never do, though. Not once. This book is the first where I am actually doing the work. I did stop and do the first three exercises before plowing on to the end. Now that I am done, I want to go back and do then all.Another feature of the book I really appreciate is the companion website and podcasts. Stanier has created short movies to help bring the point home. Also, the exercises are on the website as pdf files. This is a critical bonus to me as I don't like writing in books, much less exposing my deepest thoughts to whomever may come behind me and pick up the book. I like having those separate sheets to work with.This is a book to be read, thought about, read again and acted upon. We all have Great Work to be done. I like the way Stanier guides through the process. The exercises unlock new ideas and helps make sure nothing is overlooked. These short activities (maybe 5 minutes each) are designed to provide insight. None are trite or useless. They are to-the-point, easy to do and push the reader to actually doing the Great Work. This book is well worth the time and money. Get out of the chair and go Do some Great Work.

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