Work Without Walls

An Executive's Guide to Attention Management, Productivity, and the Future of Work

By: Maura Nevel Thomas

Narrated by: Maura Nevel Thomas

Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

Unleash Your Team’s Genius

In the knowledge economy, your team’s brainpower—their intellect, creativity, learning capacity, and decision-making ability—is the key factor in their success at work. And their scattered focus dilutes that brainpower, hindering your organization’s ability to succeed.

Today's "always-on" work culture too often prevents your staff from producing what matters most: ideas, innovation, and meaningful results. How can you and your team be successful when exhaustion and frustration from 24/7 communications, changing priorities, and constant distractions are the norm?

Executives must protect their teams (and themselves!) from the high cost of chronic stress and burn-out. To achieve this and improve your company’s results, you must invest in how well you and your teams manage attention. When employees master attention management, they are more successful, engaged, and productive.

In Work Without Walls, Maura Nevel Thomas describes how to create a culture that improves productivity by focusing on:

- Attention management
- Efficient communication strategies
- Achieving the most significant results
- Off-site work with healthy boundaries
- Office design that supports collaborative and focused work
- Vacation and downtime
- Work-life balance
- Holistic well-being

In this book, you will discover specific action items you can implement now to make personal shifts and organizational changes that will support the well-being and long-term success of your team and your organization.

"If conventional wisdom now says that constant work is necessary for professional success, I can't think of a more important time to buck convention." --Maura Nevel Thomas

©2017 Burget Ave. Press (P)2017 Burget Ave. Press

Very repetitive

This book reminds me of a report by a high school student, where the report has to be X-number of pages. The student writes a concept, then says it again in as many ways as possible to stretch out across as many pages as he can.
The chapter on email had helpful tips but most chapters had the author state her position, talk about various studies which support her position, give a tip or two, and then list bullet points about what she just said!

Wow, my feelings and experiences articulated.

This book managed to articulate my feelings regarding work stress, and helped me to handle and communicate much more effectively.