Tony Schwartz

Biography

Tony Schwartz is President and CEO of The Energy Project, a company that helps individuals and organizations fuel energy, engagement, focus and productivity by harnessing the science of high performance.

Tony`s most recent book, Be Excellent At Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live, was published in May 2010 and became an immediate New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His previous book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, co- authored with Jim Loehr, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 28 languages.

Tony is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and is one of HBR.org`s most popular bloggers. His most recent HBR article, The Paradox of Productivity: How Sony Pictures Gets More Out of Employees By Demanding Less, was published in May, 2010. He also writes for numerous other publications, including the New York Times.

Tony began his career as a journalist. He has been a reporter for the New York Times, an editor at Newsweek, a staff writer at New York and Esquire, and a columnist for Fast Company. He also co-authored the #1 worldwide bestseller The Art of the Deal with Donald Trump, and wrote What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America.

Tony has delivered keynotes to audiences around the world and has worked with leaders at dozens of organizations including Apple, Ford, Google, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Ernst & Young, Kraft, Wells Fargo and Oracle, as well as the Los Angeles Police Department, the Cleveland Clinic and the National Security Agency.

Publications

Be Excellent At Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live

Be Excellent at Anything makes a compelling case for a new kind of workplace, a better way of working and a more deeply satisfying way of life. Employers and employees alike share an unspoken assumption that human beings are capable of operating in the same way computers do: continuously, at ever higher speeds, running multiple programs at the same time. In fact, we`re designed to pulse. We`re more productive and more satisfied when we move rhythmically between spending and renewing our energy across four dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Titles

Be Excellent At Anything: The Four Keys to Transforming the Way We Work and Live

Demand in our lives is increasing relentlessly. Our capacity isn`t keeping pace. The way we`re working isn`t working. Far too many organizations expect their employees to operate in the same way that computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time.

It`s a prescription for failure. Human beings are designed to pulse. We`re at our best when we move between periods of expending energy and intermittently renewing our needs across four dimensions: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. The better those needs are met, the more value we`re capable of creating. Time is finite, but we can expand and renew our energy across all four dimensions of our lives.

The primary value exchange between employees and employers today is time for money. Each seeks to get as much of the other`s resource as possible. It`s a thin, one dimensional transaction that serves neither side well. Rather than trying to get more out of their employees, employers are better served by meeting people`s multi-dimensional needs, so they`re freed, fueled and motivated to bring the best of themselves to work every day.

TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE WORK: The New Rules of Engagement

Demand in our lives is increasing relentlessly. Our capacity isn`t keeping pace. The way we`re working isn`t working. Far too many organizations expect their employees to operate in the same way that computers do: continuously, at high speeds, for long periods of time, running multiple programs at the same time. It`s a prescription for failure. Rather than trying to get more out of their employees, employers are better served by investing in meeting their multi-dimensional needs, so they are freed, fueled and motivated to bring the best of themselves to work every day.