How to Succeed in Business Without Working So Damn Hard

by Robert J. Kriegel

Book Overview

The average work week is 60 hours and rising. These days, people are working harder than ever before: but these long hours don't necessarily translate into productivity. While individuals race to meet... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0446679860
• ISBN13: 9780446679862
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Business Plus
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Damn Hard Cash Crunch & Start Living!

It has ever been a race to meet the deadlines, blindly following up the routine work pressures and sacrificing the wee hours of life in order to gain achievement to label n brand it as `success' - This is the major folly of most efficient people at workplace who pay a price missing wider opportunities to enhance better future. The game is all about Working wisely and not Damn Hard as the Author advice cool tips on how to succeed in Business with a shapened job performance pulling in the effective measures to take charge of total control of time schedules. Robert Kriegel's own experience has inspirational theme to add to productivity with less efforts. He focus on more efficiency reducing stress levels at workplace. With latest technology creeping in day in and out, cell phones, computers, internet demands more Time, money and energy levels to cope up with mounting work pressures. I personally feel, work never has a dead end but life's frustration do! And this is where Robert's insights are really helpful to be a success and re-think over working Damn hard as its endless. There is a time for let-go and just do nothing sometimes to rejuvenate oneself again and Robert's book is a tip on ice-berg `Work wonders, work wise ways' and there you scale higher to achieve in this economy crunch - all gains and no pains. I personally recommend this book for workoholic Businessmen and management leaders. A must read

Insightful!

If you still think you have to hammer yourself to get ahead, stop doing two things at once and listen to Robert J. Kriegel. The author, an expert in human performance and the psychology of change, says most people work too strenuously at a frantic pace that generates stress and reduces performance. You can perform better if you work smarter, even at 80% or 90% of your current buzz. If you've read human potential success books, some of this will sound familiar, but Kriegel focuses on becoming successful while having a full personal life. He quotes managers and employees, and outlines exactly what you should do. You're on your own figuring out what a 90% effort amounts to, but if you're a mid-level manager or executive who likes Kriegel's idea of winning-by-easing-up, we recommend that you somehow find the time to read his book.

More Unconventional (and Valuable) Advice

Robert Kriegel has made his name crusading for more efficiency in the workplace. He loves to take commonly held workplace ideas and smash them to pieces. In How to Succeed... Kriegel looks at the long work-week and so-called "digital helpers."In an age where gadgets are designed to create more leisure time and promote convenience, we are working more than ever. Our average work week is climbing higher and higher (I know mine is at least) and, since the proliferation of cell phones and wireless Internet, it has become harder to escape the office.Kriegel provides us with an out. This book lays the groundwork for a new, more efficient working style with the classic tagline, "Work smarter, not harder."The book is an excellent source for interesting thinking-points and its easy-to-read teaching style makes Kriegel's ideas very accessible. Anybody will be able to see his points and implement solutions in their own lives (should they so wish).How to Succeed... is a well-written and helpful antidote to the rat race.