In this groundbreaking book, Jim Clawson and Doug Newburg demonstrate that the highest levels of human performance are driven by emotional congruity. In other words, high performers feel good about what they do. The authors describe `how world-class performers, touring musicians, Olympic athletes, heart surgeons, high growth executives, and aircraft carrier landing crews have learned how to manage how they feel in order to improve their performance.’ Of course you don’t have to be a world record holder or a heart surgeon to take advantage of the lessons in this brilliant work.
In the old paradigm, feelings didn’t matter; all that counted was thought and action. But it turns out that feelings drive our behavior and determine our level of performance. And they are the heart of the experience of fulfillment. In these pages Clawson and Newburg serve as Socratic guides to your discovery of optimal feeling for high performance and fulfillment.
Review
Powered by Feel shows we’ve been leading our lives and our organizations backwards. Through compelling examples and heartwrenching stories, find a fresh approach to motivation and accountability that feels right, plays well, moves us forward, and works. This book should be at the top of everyone’s reading list. Wow.
Review
Using a free-flowing, unique `pass-and-catch’ approach, Jim Clawson and Doug Newburg stimulate and provoke the reader with their ideas about how to find the exhilaration — the `feel’ — that most of us want in our lives. Drawing on their own and others’ research on world-class performers, they provide dozens of examples that will lead you to think about how you want to feel in your own life. More importantly, they provide a framework for how to get there.
About the Author
James G S Clawson is the Johnson and Higgins Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He received degrees from Stanford University (Japanese Language and Literature with great distinction), Brigham Young University (MBA in marketing), and Harvard University Graduate School of Business (DBA Organizational Behavior). A prolific writer on issues of leadership (e.g. Level Three Leadership 4th Edition, Teaching Management, and Creating a Learning Culture), career management, management development and mentoring, Dr Clawson taught for three years at the Harvard Business School before joining the Darden School where he has been since 1981.
Doug Newburg has a PhD in Sports Psychology from the University of Virginia where he was on the medical school faculty for 15 years and served as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education. He spent several years at University of Florida Medical School in the Thoracic Surgery Division before leaving to create his company Powered by Feel based in Boulder Colorado. Dr Newburg consults with a wide variety of individuals and organizations in business, athletics, music, medicine, education and other segments. He has worked with CEOs and executives, World Champions, and Olympic Medal winners, as well as with parents, educators, and college and high school students.
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