Great at Work

Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More

by Morten T. Hansen

Number of pages: 320

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

BBB Library: Personal Success

ISBN: 978-1501179518



About the Author

Hansen is a professor in entrepreneurship at INSEAD and at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to INSEAD, he was a professor at Harvard Business School.

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Editorial Review

Why do some people perform better at work than others? This deceptively simple question continues to confound professionals in all sectors 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 can be applied by anyone looking to maximize their time and performance.

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“A refreshingly data-based, clearheaded guide…”—Publishers Weekly

“Adds significantly to our understanding of job performance–and satisfaction–in an increasingly competitive workplace....[Hansen's] findings, bolstered as they are by a massive and statistically rigorous study that included different kinds of for-profit companies, should command the attention of those of us who want to reengineer our work lives, reduce burnout, improve performance and job satisfaction.”—Psychology Today

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The new question: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller  Good to Great,  Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In  Great by Choice,  Collins and his colleague, Morten T. Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in
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The new question: Ten years after the worldwide bestseller Good to Great, Jim Collins returns to ask: Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not? In Great by Choice, Collins and his colleague, Morten T. Hansen, enumerate the principles for building a truly great enterprise in