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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

    Written by Scott Sonenshein

    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

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    A Rice University social scientist teaches you to rethink what you need to succeed, and do more with what you already have, in this counterintuitive, evidence-based guide to changing the way you work and live.

    Stretch identifies key ways for people and organizations to work beyond their resources to achieve higher performance. Based on in-depth research in psychology and management, Scott Sonenshein shows how to accomplish goals, find professional and personal success, and live a richer life.

    Two different mindsets drive achievement, creativity, and innovation: ""stretching"" and ""chasing.""Stretchers embrace what they have, finding unconventional ways to use resources already at hand. A competitor is someone who improves your own work; a floundering brand becomes a trendy; and forgotten workers become star employees. Chasers get trapped in convention. They mindlessly accept other people’s definitions of resources and often feel they are missing what they need to succeed. Sonenshein teaches a four-part framework that activates the stretching potential we all have but may not fully recognize:

    • Diversify experiences.
    • Act immediately without overplanning.
    • Expect the positive.
    • Build unique combinations.

    Sonenshein reveals that while we rarely have all we think we need, we usually have more than we imagine. Whether leading organizations, launching careers, or raising families, Stretch teaches us how to achieve more by acting resourcefully at work and beyond.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateFeb 7, 2017
    ISBN9780062659491
    Author

    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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    • 3/5
      Great thesis but it drags on, like many other books in this category. Listen to the first few chapters and you're good.

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    • 5/5
      excellent map to commun sense and better decision! well done!
    • 4/5
      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.