Stretch
Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness.
We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal goals. It turns out we’re wrong.
Using captivating stories to illustrate research in psychology and management, Rice University professor Scott Sonenshein examines why some people and organizations succeed with so little, while others fail with so much.
People and organizations approach resources in two different ways: “chasing” and “stretching.” When chasing, we exhaust ourselves in the pursuit of more. When stretching, we embrace the resources we already have. This frees us to find creative and productive ways to solve problems, innovate, and engage our work and lives more fully.
Stretch shows why everyone—from executives to entrepreneurs, professionals to parents, athletes to artists—performs better with constraints; why seeking too many resources undermines our work and well-being; and why even those with a lot benefit from making the most out of a little.
Drawing from examples in business, education, sports, medicine, and history, Scott Sonenshein advocates a powerful framework of resourcefulness that allows anybody to work and live better.
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Table of contents
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: My Stretch
- 1. A Tale of Two Beers: Work with What You’ve Got
- 2. The Grass Is Always Greener: The Causes and Consequences of a Chasing Mind-Set
- 3. All Things Rich and Beautiful: The Basics and Benefits of a Stretching Mind-Set
- 4. Get Outside: The Value of Knowing a Little about a Lot
- 5. Time to Act: Why We Sometimes Perform Better without a Script (and All the Time and Money in the World)
- 6. We Are What We Expect: How Beliefs Make Us and the People We Care About Better (or Worse)
- 7. Mix It Up: The Power of Unlikely Combinations
- 8. Avoid Injuries: How to Get the Right Stretch
- 9. Workout: Exercises to Strengthen a Stretch
- Conclusion: Your Stretch
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Credits
- Copyright
- About the Publisher