Summer Reading Club: Do More Great Work (Week 4, Book 8)
by Melanie Marx on August 5, 2011
The final selection in our Summer Reading Club is Michael Bungay Stanier’s Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork, and Start the Work That Matters. Stanier explains that many of us are “treading water” by doing far too much good work, spending too much time on energy draining activities or bad work and not enough great work that offers us true satisfaction.
Do More Great Work takes us through ”fifteen exercises [that] show how we can finally do more of the work that engages and challenges us, that has a real impact, that plays to our strengths—and that matters.” The exercises are broken into four broader categories, and then each map or module works specifically on different prompts that will help us to find, start and sustain Great Work.
Greatness
- Where are you now?
- What’s great?
- What are you like at your best?
Choices
- Who’s great?
- What’s calling you?
- What’s broken?
Possibilities
- What’s required?
- What’s the best choice?
- What’s possible?
Actions
- What’s the right ending?
- How courageous are you?
- What will you do?
- What support do you need?
- What’s the next step?
- Lost your great work mojo?
Each of the visual maps take only ten minutes to complete, as they guide us through the process of finding truly satisfying work through brainstorming, reflection, analysis of observations. Stanier’s playbook will teach us how to blitz past the mundane and trivial busywork of our day-to-day jobs and onto the work that really matters.
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What’s keeping you from doing Great Work?
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In case you missed any of the previous books in our Summer Reading Club, here are the links to our reviews below:
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Melanie J. Marx is a rising junior at the University of Georgia pursuing dual majors in Mass Media Arts and Film Studies and an interdisciplinary certificate in Music Business. Through various internships, Melanie has gained diverse experience and knowledge in media communications. Melanie is an active member of the University of Georgia’s Di Gamma Kappa broadcasting society and enjoys balancing her time between various campus organizations, her studies, and supporting her fellow Grady students, the Department of Theater and the Georgia Bulldogs.
The final selection in our Summer Reading Club is Michael Bungay Stanier’s Do More Great Work: Stop the Busywork, and Start the Work That Matters. Stanier explains that many of us are “treading water” by doing far too much good work, spending too much time on energy draining activities or bad work and not enough great work that offers us true satisfaction.