Do More Great Work - by Michael Bungay Stanier
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Issac Getz

Professor Isaac Getz  is the professor of Idea, Initiative and Innovation Management at the EACP Europe Business School and author of a new book that gets right to the very heart of what it takes to do Great Work in an organization: Freedom Inc.

It’s a terrific book and follows on nicely from the previous interview with Bob Cialdini. The book tells the stories of organizations that are approaching work by thinking about how to work differently and succeeding because of this approach. The subtitle says it all: Free Your Employees and Let Them Lead Your Business to High Productivity, Profits and Growth. Isaac incorporates his own background of innovation but looks at a bigger picture of how work is evolving, and that’s what we talk about in this interview. We discuss:

  • How the style of “liberating leaders” is the starting point for any Freedom Inc.
  • The importance of people feeling intrinsically equal – and what that actually means
  • The impact of a lessening of control from the top – and the impact that has on agility and ability to serve your customers

You can learn more about Professor Isaac Getz and his book at freedomincbook.com.

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Posted on March 5, 2010

Michael Port

michael portMichael Port is a best-selling business author.  His first book, Book Yourself Solid was on the best seller lists for months, and this week he’s publishing his latest, The Think Big Manifesto.  Its subtitle says it all:  “Think you can’t change your life (and the world)?  Think again!”

I’m thrilled that Michael wrote a piece for Do More Great Work.

In this interview Michael and I look at:

  • Why you should know your limits and avoid the Bonk
  • The power of goal setting
  • How to create a To Not Do list
  • The Think Big Revolution

This interview is approximately 20 minutes long.

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Posted on February 11, 2010

Penelope Trunk

Penelope Trunk smallThe tag-line for Penelope Trunk’s blog is ‘advice at the intersection of life and work’. That’s good, but quite frankly it undersells what Penelope does. For one things, she’s the founder of Brazen Careerist, a social network which helps young people manage their careers. Second, her blog is a no-holds-barred, deeply personal and often provocative look at her life and what it takes to be successful in business today. It’s a compelling mix of research, personal revelation and wise advice.

Penelope’s piece in Do More Great Work is as thoughtful and as provocative as you’d expect having read her blog.

In this interview we look at:

  • The problem with our own ‘internal rules’ about how the world is run
  • How wisdom is often found in the ‘in between parts’ and the moments of transition
  • Why career advice is often best when it’s based on the ’stumbling around’ rather than the straight line
  • How the risk of being real is more than worth it

You can follow Penelope on Twitter at @PenelopeTrunk and on her blog.

Listen to my interview with Penelope Trunk

If you enjoyed this interview, you’ll also enjoy my conversations with

- Dan Pink, author of The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

- Barbara Coloroso, author of The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander

- Michael Neill, author of Supercoach

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Posted on February 10, 2010

Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin’s new book, ‘The Happiness Project‘, has been out for just two weeks and is already making a splash. It tells her story of spending a year testing strategies to be happier. It’s not that her life was bad beforehand – it wasn’t, and she was living a perfectly fine life in New York with her husband and young child. But she was curious about what it really took to be happy, and spend a year experimenting and blogging and writing about her journey.

In this interview we discuss:

  • How to convert the theory of happiness to the practices of happiness.
  • Whether novelty and challenge adds – or reduces – happiness.
  • The paradox of why things that increase your happiness don’t always make you happy.
  • The happiness strategy that Gretchen was most skeptical about – and what she ended up discovering.

You can follow Gretchen on Twitter at @GretchenRubin and read a sample chapter of her new book at her website.

Listen to my interview with Gretchen Rubin

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Posted on January 13, 2010
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