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Authors in August: Do More Great Work with Michael Bungay Stanier

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🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

"Stop the Busywork, and Start the Work that Matters" – the subtitle of Do More Great Work by Michael Bungay Stanier gets right to the point on how we can do more of what we love and be the best versions of ourselves.

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In 2010, via Workman Publishing, Executive Coach, and Author, Michael Bungay Stagnier,

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published Do More Great Work. My own Amazon Purchase History shows me buying a copy for myself that spring,

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and then buying another to share with my wife in 2011

0:15.3

another for a friend in February 2017 don't remember which one another for a different

0:20.0

friend that same August and then two more purchases for mentees in the fall of 2019.

0:26.6

Now as a sample size of one if I'm any indicator this is a book people love and share around.

0:33.1

Well, Michael's book reads quick, fast, and fun.

0:36.2

It makes you smarter as you go, and it's really a workbook.

0:39.8

The author introduces us to exercises he calls maps.

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There are 15 of them in the book

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and you're guided along to fill them out as you go.

0:48.3

Together, they're designed to help you do more great work. Stop the busy work, the subtitle goes, and start the work that matters.

0:57.0

Now I believe this is a book that anyone can pick up at any point in life and through some introspection and a little elbow grease chart their way forward.

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Maybe get back on the path you once were on, maybe find a new path, eyes wide open, maybe a mix.

1:14.0

If last week's look at positive intelligence gives you an operating system,

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to be a better version of yourself,

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do more great work puts you on a path partly of your own design a higher path than you were probably initially taking so taken together read one after the other in the same sequence that this month's podcasts bring you, I believe that

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positive intelligence and do more great work will give clear eyes and a full heart and I say you can't lose.

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Get ready for high energy and yes, high excitement

1:46.0

about your potential new future

1:48.3

that we may just help you find only on this week's

1:52.3

Rule Breaker Investing.

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