Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life - Hardcover

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LAURA NASH is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Business School. She is a leading authority in the field of business ethics and has written many books on the subject, including Good Intentions Aside and Church on Sunday, Work on Monday. HOWARD STEVENSON is Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for External Relations at Harvard Business School. He is the author or coauthor of six books and his papers have appeared in such publications as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Business Strategy, and Strategic Management Journal, among others.

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Success is clearly about more than making money, but it's also not just about happiness. You can have wealth and pleasure and still feel dissatisfied on many fronts. What, then, is real success and what does it take to achieve it in lasting terms that benefit you and others? How do you prepare your children and your business to succeed on the goals they most deeply value and have a reasonable chance of obtaining?

Just Enough argues that these questions have a new urgency today. People are caught up in success approaches that seem to never quite keep up with all the moving targets around them.

Dissatisfied and confused, they want something more from success, but don't know how to go about it. They become stressed out, indecisive, or even detached from their own values and talents.

In a thought-provoking examination of high achievers in business and other professions, authors Nash and Stevenson argue that the single greatest cause of today's success frustration can be traced to the failure to understand that real success requires skill in the art of complex decision-making about noncomparable goals. Many success advisories tell you how to go after one big thing, and many organizations mistakenly try to motivate success on these terms. Drawing on new in-depth interviews, hundreds of case studies, and a survey of top executives, the authors conclude that even for the most driven, success is really measured on four distinct, irreducible categories representing conflicting human needs: happiness, achievement, significance, and legacy. Unless you know how to "score" in each category repeatedly in every aspect of your life-family, work, and community-you aren't really going after a success that will feel worthwhile and lasting.

Just Enough presents a powerful framework for identifying and distinguishing the most important definers of success in your life and your business. It advances a step-by-step "kaleidoscope strategy" for addressing each of your goals in a way that doesn't shortchange the others. This process is not a formula for getting you everything you wish from one goal. It's about learning how to sort and scale and switch your energies to focus the right skills and perspectives on each of the four categories of success sequentially. With this diagnostic you can calibrate your activities to do just enough for today and for the future. You don't continue to waste your energies focusing on one thing until you hit a wall of dissatisfaction. It's a critical tool not only for individuals, but also for businesses seeking to achieve lasting greatness.