false 4920421 1 How many countless working hours have you spent on projects, proposals, paperwork, and meetings that felt useless or were ignored or dismissed? Hard work is not the same as real work. Half of the work we do consumes valuable time without strengthening the short- or long-term survival of the organization. In a word, it's fake. Not only does fake work drain a company's resources without improving its bottom line, it steals conviction, care, and positive morale from employees, and adds the burden of high turnover, communication breakdowns, and cultural patterns of poor productivity.<P>But how can you turn fake work into real work? Internationally renowned business consultants Brent D. Peterson and Gaylan W. Nielson explain how to identify needlessly time-consuming and sometimes difficult tasks (which aren't always as easy to spot as they seem) and shift your focus toward rewarding work that will achieve results. With more than twenty years of experience, Peterson and Nielson have successfully helped corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, schools, and community groups increase their productivity and retain talented employees by understanding and using their skills on things that actually matter. They illustrate their advice with stories about real world employees who have been trapped by fake work.<P><I>Fake Work</i> offers solutions that will change the way you view work, including how to recognize fake work and how to get out of it, how (and what) to communicate with your colleagues to eliminate fake work, how to recognize and counteract the personality traits that encourage fake work, and how to close the gap between your company's strategies and the work that needs to be done to reach the results critical to your and your company's survival. 4986010 6 1 2009 Fake Work: Why People Are Working Harder than Ever but Accomplishing Less, and How to Fix the Problem total:5|4:1|2:3|1:1| 5 11 14 2 1 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 19:45:41 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 19:45:41 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 07 05:01:11 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 15 13:08:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Aug 02 08:31:03 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 08:31:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jun 30 23:38:04 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 23:38:04 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Jun 20 06:55:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 06:55:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 15:45:05 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 15:45:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 15 20:28:22 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 20:28:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 10 07:38:13 -0700 2009 Sun May 10 07:38:13 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat May 09 13:45:56 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 07:43:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 22 21:27:05 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 21:27:05 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Mar 07 19:25:32 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 07 19:25:32 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Mar 06 19:25:27 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 22:23:27 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 19:25:27 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 30 19:51:01 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 19:51:01 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Dec 21 09:46:22 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 21 09:46:25 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4920421