Workplace Balance
References
You may find these books and web links helpful in your exploration of workplace balance.
The Power of Full Engagement - Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal - Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz
A practical and scientifically based approach to the skillful management of energy on and off the job. Grounded in work with high performance athletes.
Encouraging The Heart - A Leader's Guide To Rewarding & Recognizing Others - James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner
A set of principles, practices and examples that show how genuine appreciation helps energize people to excel.
Care Packages For The Workplace - Barbara Glanz
Very practical suggestions for dozens of things you can do to regenerate spirit at work.
You Don't Have To Go Home From Work Exhausted - Anne McGee Cooper
Wonderful read and exciting presentation! How to add energy enhancers and rejuvenators to every day of your life.
Slack - Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency - Tom DeMarco
Ideas for making an organization slightly less efficient but enormously more effective, by reintroducing slack as a key element for greater flexibility and more thoughtful learning and change.
www.cprn.org/en/doc.cfm?doc=308
2003 Ipsos Reid Poll reports that work-life balance is what Canadians want most from their work life.
www.jimcollins.com/lib/articles.html
A USA Today article by Jim Collins that suggests an effective route to stronger focus is the creation of 'A Stop Doing List'.
For a complete listing of references and web links, visit the Pauseworks Library.
To recommend a valuable resource you think should be added to the reference list, contact the Pausemeister.
"Those who are caught up in the busy life have neither the time nor quiet to come to understand themselves and their goals. Since the opportunity for inward attention hardly ever comes, many people have not heard from themselves for a long, long time. Those who are always 'on the run' never meet anyone any more, not even themselves."
-Robert Banks
