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Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined
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Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less -and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined

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A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using the science of resourcefulness.

We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and additional resources for our professional and personal goals. It turns out we’re wrong.

Using captivating stories to illustrate research in psychology and management, Rice University professor Scott Sonenshein examines why some people and organizations succeed with so little, while others fail with so much.

People and organizations approach resources in two different ways: “chasing” and “stretching.” When chasing, we exhaust ourselves in the pursuit of more. When stretching, we embrace the resources we already have. This frees us to find creative and productive ways to solve problems, innovate, and engage our work and lives more fully.

Stretch shows why everyone—from executives to entrepreneurs, professionals to parents, athletes to artists—performs better with constraints; why seeking too many resources undermines our work and well-being; and why even those with a lot benefit from making the most out of a little.

Drawing from examples in business, education, sports, medicine, and history, Scott Sonenshein advocates a powerful framework of resourcefulness that allows anybody to work and live better.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHarperCollins
Release dateFeb 7, 2017
ISBN9780062457233
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Scott Sonenshein

Scott Sonenshein is the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice University and bestselling author of Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less – And Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined and co-author (with Marie Kondo) of Joy at Work. His award winning research, teaching, and speaking has helped Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals in industries such as technology, energy, healthcare, retail, education, banking, manufacturing, and non-profits. Scott has written for the New York Times, Time Magazine, Fast Company and Harvard Business Review.

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    Stretch's presentation is a little too buisness-y but the ideas presented by the author are worth implementing. Stretch shows you how to do more with less but that's just a small piece of it. The heart of it is how to reframe the question of how to get from here to wherever you're trying to go. It's a mindset change, one that's a distant cousin to the story of The Tortoise and the Hare.

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