Great Work Provocations: Short, sharp shots of inspiration

Want more from your work? If you’re like most of us, you are struggling just to stay on top of the regular stuff that keeps flowing your way. Like digging a hole in the sand at the beach, no matter how fast you bail, it keeps filling up with water. What will make you happier in the work you do? Here’s another way to put it. There are only three types of work in your life. There’s Bad Work: the mind-numbing, soul-sapping, life-crushing work that grows like weeds. In organizations it’s bureaucracy, pointless meetings, email overwhelm … and anything that makes you think, “This is my one and precious life - what am I doing?” Then there’s Good Work: your job description, and what you spend most of your time doing. There’s nothing inherently wrong with this - except that these days this work seems to overflow filling every minute of every day. Sometimes it feels like we are just trying to avoid drowning in our own Good Work. And finally there’s Great Work: the meaningful work you’re hungry for. This is the work that matters, makes a difference and has an impact. It’s the work you actually want to tell people about. (Who boasts, “I didn’t get too far behind on my email today!”) Bottom line? You want to do more Great Work but you’re struggling to get beyond the Bad and the Good. In Do More Great Work I offer a systematic way you can find, start and sustain your Great Work. This book is different. Great Work Provocations is designed as a daily, less-than-30-seconds-to-read-message to help give your mornings a twist. Start on January 1 or any day of the year and make this perpetual calendar a daily way to provoke you to do more Great Work. Great Work Provocations was designed to wake you up, provoke you and shake you out of the Good Work rut on a daily basis. It draws from my background in the worlds of change, creativity and innovation, and from my love of a good metaphor and a powerful question. If you’ve ever wanted to get beyond the day to day and do more Great Work, this book is for you.