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In Just Enough, top Harvard professors offer a revealing, research-based look at the true nature of professional success, helping people everywhere live more rewarding and satisfying lives. True professional and personal satisfaction seems more elusive every day, despite a proliferation of gurus and special methods that promise to make it easy. They conclude that many of the problems of success today can be traced back to unrealistic expectations and misconceptions about what success is and what constitutes it. The authors show where the happiest and most well-balanced among us are focusing their energy, and why, to help readers find more balance and satisfaction in their lives.

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About the Author

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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"One of the things society needs most right now is a reasoned sense of what is enough. This book will advance the dialogue of this important topic for individuals and their communities."
?Hon. Barbara H. Franklin, President and CEO, Barbara Franklin Enterprises
former U.S. Secretary of Commerce

"Rarely do we find a book for leaders that addresses all aspects of leadership success. Just Enough does just this in a powerful and inspiring way. From values and self-fulfillment, high performance and results, to legacy, the last great gift of a leader, Just Enough delivers a profound new resource for leaders everywhere."
?Frances Hesselbein
Chairman, Leader to Leader Institute

"Just Enough will make you think about how you define success in your life in entirely new and creative ways. If you are searching for the kind of meaningful success that endures, read this well-researched and well-written book."
?Ralph S. Larsen, former Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson

"Just Enough provides insights and guideposts for dealing with the complex pressures for performance in today?s workplace environment. Readers of this impressive book will have a better understanding of what success should mean and how to go about achieving it. Best of all, Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson use their experience and research to provide concrete examples and helpful ?quick points? summaries."
?Thomas W. Dunfee
Joseph Kolodny Professor of Social Responsibility in Business
The Wharton School

"A brilliant assault on our conventional assumptions of success. Completely fresh and original, Just Enough is filled with wisdom and unfettered thinking. The book takes the reader to the core of life?s deeper meanings and offers real solutions to man?s obsession with success."
?Jim Loehr, CEO, LGE Performance Systems and coauthor of the bestselling The Power of Full Engagement

"I wish I could have read this book when I was thirty and then reread it periodically throughout my life. Its insights into how to define success and what is not enough, just enough, and too much are fascinating. I could have set clearer targets and periodically altered them as my life and the world changed."
?Frank Batten, retired CEO, Landmark Communications, Inc. and founder of The Weather Channel

"Bravo to Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson for tackling a complex subject and providing a framework for analysis that is both original and engaging. For anyone who wants to sort out ?success? from ?significance? in work and life, Just Enough is the book for you."
?Janet Morrison Clarke, President, Clarke Littlefield LLC and former Executive Vice President, Young & Rubicam, Inc.

From the Inside Flap

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.

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  • PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 0471458368
  • ISBN 13 9780471458364
  • BindingHardcover
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages320

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