Work Without Walls: An Executive's Guide to Attention Management, Productivity, and the Future of Work - Softcover

Maura Nevel Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998009504 ISBN 13: 9780998009506

Publisher: Burget Ave Press, 2017

Synopsis

Unleash Your Team’s Genius

In the knowledge economy, your team’s brainpower—their intellect, creativity, learning capacity, and decision-making ability—is the key factor in their success at work. And their scattered focus dilutes that brainpower, hindering your organization’s ability to succeed.

Today's "always-on" work culture too often prevents your staff from producing what matters most: ideas, innovation, and meaningful results. How can you and your team be successful when exhaustion and frustration from 24/7 communications, changing priorities, and constant distractions are the norm?

Executives must protect their teams (and themselves!) from the high cost of chronic stress and burn-out. To achieve this and improve your company’s results, you must invest in how well you and your teams manage attention. When employees master attention management, they are more successful, engaged, and productive.

In Work Without Walls, Maura Nevel Thomas describes how to create a culture that improves productivity by focusing on:

• Attention management
• Efficient communication strategies
• Achieving the most significant results
• Off-site work with healthy boundaries
• Office design that supports collaborative and focused work
• Vacation and downtime
• Work-life balance
• Holistic well-being

In this book, you will discover specific action items you can implement now to make personal shifts and organizational changes that will support the well-being and long-term success of your team and your organization.

"If conventional wisdom now says that constant work is necessary for professional success, I can't think of a more important time to buck convention." ~Maura Nevel Thomas

About this title

From the Author

The purpose of my work is to teach busy, driven knowledge workers to regain control of their lives and work so that they can live a life of choice, and joyfully and enthusiastically offer their unique gifts (their 'significant results') to the world every day. It's those gifts that will power the world into a successful future and that will allow us to realize the promise of our individual and collective potential. 
In my most recent experience as a speaker and trainer, I've had the opportunity to work directly with CEOs and business leaders at companies of all sizes. This experience helped me to see how the knowledge learned in my decades in the personal productivity industry could be useful in shaping corporate cultures where employees are set up to optimize individual and organizational success. This book is a result of that experience, and I hope you find it as useful as my clients have.  

From the Back Cover

What's interfering with your team's productivity?

• Will letting them work remotely help?
• Should you offer unlimited vacation? What about an open-office layout?
• And how can you help employees manage distractions and get important work done?

Technology has irrevocably changed how work happens. Job demands have left the confines of the office and are always present. But today's "always-on" work culture actually prevents your team from producing what really matters: ideas, innovation, and meaningful results. A new world of work calls for new strategies. This concise guidebook gives you easy-to-implement steps to tame technology, energize your work culture, and set your team up to bring their "A-game" to your business every day.

Edition details

• Publisher: Burget Ave Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0998009504
• ISBN 13: 9780998009506
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 168