Just Enough
Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life
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- £12.99
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- £12.99
Publisher Description
In Just Enough, top Harvard professors offer a revealing, research-based look at the true nature of professional success, helping people everywhere live more rewarding and satisfying lives. True professional and personal satisfaction seems more elusive every day, despite a proliferation of gurus and special methods that promise to make it easy. They conclude that many of the problems of success today can be traced back to unrealistic expectations and misconceptions about what success is and what constitutes it. The authors show where the happiest and most well-balanced among us are focusing their energy, and why, to help readers find more balance and satisfaction in their lives.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Defining success, learning how to achieve it and feeling satisfied with the results--all in a world where nothing ever seems to be enough--are the challenges addressed by the authors of this volume. Nash and Stevens, both of the Harvard Business School, believe that"everyone seems to be struggling with the Tantalus effect. This mythological character was punished with an eternal, raging thirst." As they point out, such constant striving means perpetual stress and no contentment. Per their definition, success isn't measured by money alone; it involves four pillars of professional and personal life: happiness, achievement, significance and legacy. Illustrating their ideas with real examples (of both celebrities and non-celebrities), as well as with the ponderings of a few ancient philosophers, the authors explain what these pillars mean, how to define them for oneself, why"going for the max" is dangerous and how to calibrate one's own version of"just enough." Though the prose seems excessively wordy for a book teaching readers how to eliminate excess, the topic is interesting and well researched--and likely to strike a chord with people juggling many demands in a fast-paced, success-hungry society.
