Workplace Renewal
References
You may find these books and web links helpful in your exploration of workplace renewal.
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.
"If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more."
-Brian Koslow
