A review by jgn
Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More by Morten T. Hansen

4.0

As business books go, this is a good one. Morten T. Hansen's Great at Work is an attempt to explain how high-performers outdo their peers and deliver higher-quality work. The essential teaching of the book is that such performers "do less, then obsess": That is, they are very good at prioritizing, focusing on the top one to three things -- then they really bear down on those things to the exclusion of everything else. There's a lot more going on, but I think almost anyone would appreciate reading his chapter two, where he explains this idea in great detail. I was just looking over my own work goals for the coming year, and based on this book, I don't think I have enough focus. I have not created challenges for myself that will allow me to "do less, then obsess" and truly succeed at the genuinely most important things. I need to declutter my work for the coming year.

Chapter 4 provides guidance on how to discover your high-value work so that you can "do less, then obsess." The later chapters expand outward regarding how you get buy-in from others in your organization, how you unite passion and purpose, and, finally, how you can use the ideas from the book to better balance your work/life conundrum. All the way through, due attention is paid to have the claims sometimes need adjustment according to gender.

Longer review here: http://7fff.com/2018/03/hansen-great-at-work-how-top-performers-do-less-work-better-and-achieve-more-book-review/