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The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal Paperback – Illustrated, January 1, 2003

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“Combines the gritty toughmindedness of the best coaches with the gentle-but-insistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers” (Fast Company).

This groundbreaking New York Times bestseller has helped hundreds of thousands of people at work and at home balance stress and recovery and sustain high performance despite crushing workloads and 24/7 demands on their time.

We live in digital time. Our pace is rushed, rapid-fire, and relentless. Facing crushing workloads, we try to cram as much as possible into every day. We're wired up, but we're melting down. Time management is no longer a viable solution. As bestselling authors Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz demonstrate in this groundbreaking book, managing energy, not time, is the key to enduring high performance as well as to health, happiness, and life balance.
The Power of Full Engagement is a highly practical, scientifically based approach to managing your energy more skillfully both on and off the job by laying out the key training principles and provides a powerful, step-by-step program that will help you to:

* Mobilize four key sources of energy
* Balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal
* Expand capacity in the same systematic way that elite athletes do
* Create highly specific, positive energy management rituals to make lasting changes

Above all, this book provides a life-changing road map to becoming more fully engaged on and off the job, meaning physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused, and spiritually aligned.
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Fast Company Combines the gritty tough-mindedness of the best coaches with the gentle but insistent inspiration of the most effective spiritual advisers.

Stephen R. Covey, author of
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People A remarkable application of the athletic metaphor to high-performing people and organizations.

About the Author

Jim Loehr is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the Human Performance Institute, a training company that has successfully utilized energy management technology to improve the productivity and engagement levels of elite performers from the world of business, sport, medicine, and law enforcement for over 30 years. A world-renowned performance psychologist, Dr. Loehr is the author of thirteen books including the national bestseller The Power of Full Engagement.



Tony Schwartz is the founder and president of The Energy Project, a consulting group that works with a number of Fortune 500 companies, including American Express, Credit Suisse, Ford, General Motors, Gillette, Master Card, and Sony. He was a reporter for the
New York Times, an associate editor at Newsweek, and a staff writer for New York Magazine and Esquire and a columnist for Fast Company. He co-authored the #1 worldwide bestseller The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump, and after that wrote What Really Matters. He co-authored the #1 New York Times bestseller The Power of Full Engagement with Jim Loehr.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0743226755
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Free Press; Reprint edition (January 1, 2003)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 245 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780743226752
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0743226752
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.44 inches
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Customers find the book's spiritual content effective and practical for managing energy. It provides a powerful model to improve performance and precision. Readers appreciate the clear explanations and examples that help them build actionable plans. The book helps them manage time effectively and avoid the fallacy of focusing on time management alone. They consider it a worthwhile purchase and say the diet recommendations are helpful.

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147 customers mention "Spiritual content"147 positive0 negative

Customers find the book's spiritual content helpful. It focuses on structuring energy to improve productivity and performance. They mention that performance, health, and happiness are grounded in skillful energy management. The book includes a summary of the full engagement training system and stresses the proper balance of work and recovery.

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Customers find the book's ideas easy to understand and integrate into their lives. They appreciate the examples, case studies, and practical suggestions that are realistic and broadly applicable. The book helps them build actionable plans to achieve their goals. It also focuses on turning basic daily tasks into automatic routines, so no energy is wasted.

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25 customers mention "Performance"25 positive0 negative

Customers find the book provides an interesting and powerful model to improve performance. It focuses on performance and precision, giving many exercises and a solid system to follow. The purpose becomes a more powerful and enduring source of energy when its source moves from the brain to the heart. The book makes change and performance very personal, with exercises like Agile Results, the Pomodoro Technique, and getting up early.

"...for managing energy - are the key to full engagement and sustained high performance. "Change is difficult. We are creatures of habit...." Read more

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9 customers mention "Time management"9 positive0 negative

Customers find the book helpful for effective time management. They mention positive self-talk, creative thinking, and that managing energy, not time, is the key to greatness. The book helps articulate the fallacy of focusing on time management when the true strength of energy management is being present.

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8 customers mention "Value for money"8 positive0 negative

Customers find the book offers good value for money. They say it provides valuable examples and detailed experiences of healthy rituals. The work-life balance is worth the time, and the values fuel the energy on which purpose is built.

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7 customers mention "Diet"7 positive0 negative

Customers find the diet helpful. They mention it helps build new skills, nourish changes, and reach goals. The positive energy is reflected in the diet, exercise, and mental health.

"...An outrageously incredible coach will help build new skills, nourish changes, and reach goals for the corporate athlete; and remain with that person..." Read more

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Print is more complete than Audible version
An awesome book!Old school think Time is how to pace yourself.Truth is energy paces you.What I didn’t know is that 4 dimensions of energy and how I can improve on each.This book will give you confidence and make a 10 house workday really 10 whole hours.Spend the $10, if your serious about working smarter and balanced - you can’t miss it.It’s so good, I want to take the full course from the company but it costs like $5000+, but not now.* Also this is in more detail then the audible version. So buy the Print as well as the Audible!Life is good!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 9, 2010
    I recently re-read this book and was curious to know to what extent (if any) it has lost any of its relevance during the years since it was first published, in 2003. My conclusion? If anything, it is even more relevant now than it was before. However, that said, I still presume to suggest to those who are thinking about reading that they ignore the title and focus on the methodology that Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz introduce and then explain. Of course, full engagement has power. However, I cannot think of even one company among those annually ranked by Fortune to be the most highly admired, the best to work for, etc. that has full engagement. In fact, the results of recent research by the Gallup Organization and Towers Perrin clearly indicate that, on average, about 25-30% of employees are actively and productively engaged, about 35-40% are passively engaged (doing as little as necessary to stay employed), and about the same percentage are actively disengaged, with many of them hostile and having a toxic effect within their workplace.

    Obviously, the challenge for business leaders in all organizations (whatever their size and nature my be) is to increase the percentage of those workers who are actively and productively engaged. What do Loehr and Schwartz suggest? All of their insights and recommendations are based on a vast amount of real-world experience with all manner of organizations. What they offer in this volume is the Full Engagement Training System®, a comprehensive and cohesive program that enables us to manage energy efficiently. The methodology is based on four separate but interdependent principles:

    1. Full engagement requires drawing on separate but related sources of energy: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. "All four dynamics are critical, none is sufficient by itself and each profoundly influences the others [for better or worse]. To perform at our best, we must skillfully manage each of these interconnected dimensions of energy."

    2. Because energy capacity diminishes both with overuse and with underuse, we must balance energy expenditure with intermittent energy renewal. "We rarely consider how much energy we are spending because we take it for granted that the energy available to us is limitless. In fact, increased demand progressively depletes our energy reserves - especially in the absence of any effort to reverse the progressive loss of capacity that occurs with age."

    3. To build capacity, we must push beyond our normal limits, training in the same systematic way that elite athletes do. "Stress is not the enemy in our lives. Paradoxically, it is the key to growth. In order to build strength in a muscle we must systematically stress it, expending energy beyond normal levels. Doing so literally causes microscopic tears in the muscle fibers. At the end of a training session, functional capacity is diminished. But give the muscle twenty-four to forty-eight hours to recover and it grows stronger and better able to handle the next stimulus."

    4. Positive energy rituals - highly specific routines for managing energy - are the key to full engagement and sustained high performance. "Change is difficult. We are creatures of habit. Most of what we do is automatic and nonconscious. What we did yesterday is what we are likely to do today...A positive ritual is a behavior that becomes automatic over time - fueled by some deeply held value."

    As indicated earlier, Loehr and Schwartz have devised what they call the Full Engagement Training System® and one of several key points they make is that both supervisors and those for whom they are directly responsible are active in this program, one that involves a shared journey of observation, revelation, and increased understanding. Another is that there are continuous role reversals for both "students" and "teachers" during frequent knowledge exchanges. Still another key point is that one of the most important drivers is the human need to find meaning, "among the most powerful and enduring themes in every culture since the origin of recorded history." And still another is that those who are purpose-driven must also constantly nurture and regularly renew their "most precious resource," energy, and expend it only in the service of what matters most.

    Forget about having a workforce with full engagement and concentrate on increasing the number of workers who are fully engaged. Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz can provide invaluable assistance to those who are now planning or who are only recently embarked on efforts to achieve that worthy objective.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2005
    I am not an expert on the subject. Therefore, I submit this review for your respective analysis. The invaluable research completed by Loehr and Schwartz is remarkable! Regarding other reviews submitted for this book, I found them to be unremarkably shallow and maliciously hollow.

    An outrageously incredible coach will help build new skills, nourish changes, and reach goals for the corporate athlete; and remain with that person over an extended length of time to build consistency. Admittedly, there are other aspects to the 'overall state of the human psyche' such as having great parents, great spouse; perhaps a mentor, a sponsor, a guide and other supportive elements.

    Loehr and Schwartz have discovered that properly distributing positive energy is more important than managing time expended on a daily basis. The top-down performance pyramid model addresses the body, the emotions, the mind, and the spirit to reach the Ideal Performance State.

    In my humble opinion, to attain this level of consistency over the span of two or more decades for an executive is impossible. The research could be realistically applied for a world-class athlete since he or she has a much shorter time (and attention) span and the coach is still around.

    However, I will contradict myself now and submit that maybe, just maybe, it is possible. Here is my reasoning. Recently, I met a new group of world-class athletes who are challenging traditional rules. This new breed does not comprehend the word "NO" and the positive energy, reflected in diet, exercise, and mental agility is not only healthy but contagious.

    A few weeks ago, I also had the pleasure of meeting a 24-yr. Chinese-born executive who received her business training and experience in Germany. She is fluent in six languages. She owns three manufacturing plants in China, and she is the most aggressive human machine I have ever met. After rigorous negotiations and discussions, she is a powerful and wealthy woman on all levels.

    I noticed that she took periods to oscillate (rebuild her energy) after stressful negotiations. She closed her eyes, relaxed her muscles and meditated. Later, she told me that she imagined the experience of skydiving, or pretended that she was the heroine in a popular American movie, or she was focused on her next business 'conquest' (her word), planning every detail.

    During her normal workday, every 2 hours, I noticed that she would stop at whatever she was doing and take fifteen minute stretches, similar to the breaks taken by tennis players staring at their tennis rackets between volleys. Precise, disciplined and focused. Wow!

    I quickly noticed the similarities while reading this book, demonstrated by this remarkable woman. Spiritually, she had a keen sense of awareness and purpose. She found many different ways to tap into her positive energy.

    Is this 21st Century "shock-corporate/jock" material or what? This is a spectacular book for managing our "inner stage under the most difficult circumstances, and to emerge from stressful periods stronger, healthier, and eager for the next challenge."

    [ADDITION TO REVIEW 12JAN06] Upon additional, admittedly amateur research, I believe this book is the beginning of a powerful movement about how people can manage energy and expand life. Please review the Abs Diet by David Zinczenko (sold by Amazon). Exercise your lifestyle with challenging "sprints," then learn to oscillate (relax).
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  • Bri. N.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read, great examples and references
    Reviewed in Canada on October 28, 2024
    Highly recommended if you are interested in habbit and mindset reflections.

    Easy read and very interesting.

    Highly recommended
  • Ibrahim
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
    Reviewed in Germany on September 25, 2024
    Many good points and ideas to reflect on and take into consideration if you want to have a work life balance
  • Noctis
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maravilloso
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 30, 2019
    Libro de cabecera. Estaba buscando mentoría y la encontré. No sólo en lo profesional, sino incluso me ha ayudado a mejorar mi temperamento en casa.
    Lo voy a volver a leer.
  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Você provavelmente vai precisar somente desse livro para seu desenvolvimento pessoal
    Reviewed in Brazil on January 11, 2018
    Um dos livros mais práticos que já li em minha vida. Sublinhei quase metade do livro de tão bem estruturado e cheio de ideias e o melhor de tudo: quase todo prático. Existem alguns exemplos de clientes que participaram do programa do "Full Engagement", porém até esses dados são interessantes.

    Se esse livro não mudar sua vida, esqueça de ler auto ajuda. Se aplicar 1/3 do que ele diz, já haverão grandes mudanças. Nota-se o nível de profissionalismo do autor que não enrolar e vai direto ao ponto com uma boa experiência de vida seguido de base científica.
  • Simone
    4.0 out of 5 stars Ok
    Reviewed in Italy on March 22, 2019
    Arrivato in perfette condizioni