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Thought Leaders: Tony Schwartz - Energy - The Secret Ingredient for Maximizing Performance
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Tony Schwartz is president and founder of The Energy Project, a company that helps organizations and their leaders build and sustain capacity by learning to more skillfully manage their energy. Tony has spent 30 years studying, writing about and teaching people how to change, grow and perform more effectively in all dimensions of their lives. His most recent book, The Power of Full Engagement, co-authored with Jim Loehr, was a number one Wall Street Journal bestseller. It also spent four months on the New York Times bestsellers list and has been translated into 21 languages.
As president of LGE Performance Systems for four years, Tony developed the full engagement training system and co-authored The Making of the Corporate Athlete for The Harvard Business Review, an article that has received worldwide attention.
Tony began his career as an award-winning journalist. He was a reporter for the New York Times, associate editor at Newsweek and a staff writer for New York and Esquire magazines, as well as a columnist for Fast Company magazine. He is also co-author of the number one worldwide bestseller, The Art of the Deal, with Donald Trump. You can learn more about Tony and The Energy Project at www.theenergyproject.com. You can also meet Tony in person October 24 - 27th at our Employers of Excellence Conference 2006. Full details are available at http://www.hr.com/events/national.
KE: I'd like to begin by having you tell us why you and your colleague, Jim Loehr, wrote The Power of Full Engagement.
TS: At a time when so many people are suffering from a personal energy crisis, we wanted to take the principles around energy that we had learned from our work with athletes and corporations and help people manage energy in the broader world. This personal energy crisis is a silent crisis because productivity in the corporate world continues to rise. The problem is the toll that it is taking on individuals over time and on the sustainability of productivity and performance.
KE: The title of your book is The Power of Full Engagement. Recently, I have had a lot of material come across my desk on how to more fully engage employees. I even saw one company that purported to have a training solution that would drive engagement. I'm pretty sure you can't drive another person to be engaged, so I am wondering what your view is. Why is it such a hot topic right now?
TS: I certainly agree with you that you can't literally drive engagement, but there are things that you can do to change it. First of all, we know that there is a crisis where demand is exceeding people's capacity. In terms of engagement and how fully committed and passionate and focused people are about their work, we know that the levels of engagement are, according to Gallup data, stunningly low. We also know that high engagement drives performance and retention and drives down healthcare costs. Engagement is a key, measurable marker of how people are doing and how an organization is doing in motivating its people. I believe that with a focused and disciplined approach, it is possible to fire people's own desire to get more engaged in their workplace.
KE: In your book, you talk about moving beyond competencies to capacity. Why do you think there is so little attention paid to energy in business?
TS: Because we are obsessed with the urgent. People tend to focus on what someone can do for them right now in this moment. We have an inclination to think that as long as you have a particular skill in your toolbox that's enough. What we have discovered is that capacity is more fundamental than competency or skill. You can have a person with enormous talent and skill but if they can't bring it to light under the crucible of pressure, what good is it? Capacity, what you have in your reservoir, is what makes that possible.
KE: I love your description of living life as a series of sprints versus a marathon. I'm wondering how you came up with this comparison. Do you have any data to support it?
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Karen has over a dozen years of experience as a sales and marketing executive in various industries including recruitment and training, work as a communication coach, a writer, and editor. Karen graduated with a business degree from the University of British Columbia. |
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