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Master the Art of the Workaround toBoost Your Productivity! With the variety of challenges leaders face every day, Russell Bishop has hit on an amazinglysimple and highly effective solution: the 'workaround.' This is a brilliant approach tofacing day-to-day business challenges, and it works! --Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned executive coach and author of the New York Times bestsellers Mojo and What Got You Here Won't Get You There If you want to succeed big, there is no substitute for sticking your neck out. Russell Bishopshows how to do it without getting your head chopped off. Workarounds That Work offerspractical, down-to-earth advice on overcoming obstacles on the job--both big and small. It'sa must-read for anyone trying to navigate the bumpy road of the modern workplace. --Arianna Huffington, cofounder and editor-in-chief, the Huffington Post Workarounds That Work tackles one problem area after another, busting myths and givingpractical advice along the way. --Dave Logan, professor at the Marshall School of Business at USC and bestsellingcoauthor of Tribal Leadership Workarounds That Work goes where none of the other productivity books go--into the messy, icky, hard-to-control stuff that we all face every single day. You'll finish this book with a freshtake on how to think about productivity and at least a half-dozen new ways to get things done. --Les McKeown, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of Predictable Success Today's relentless demands of work require a new model of how we get things done. Workarounds that Work envisions work as a continuous stream of free-flowing accomplishments instead of the headaches, inefficiencies, and stresses we associate with work today. You'll never experience red tape again. --Tony Schwartz, CEO, The Energy Project, and bestselling author of The Way We're Working Isn't Working About the Book: You've experienced the frustration dozensof times: you need approval on a project, but a key sign-off person is out of town; a productis on a crash schedule, but you're missingan important detail; you need to move aheadin a process, but company rules cause delays.What you need is a workaround.In Workarounds That Work, Russell Bishop--an expert in personal and organization transformation--teaches the art of the workaround: a method for accomplishing a task or goalwhen the normal process isn't producing thedesired results. Workarounds help you breakthrough the tasks and systems that keep youfrom the important stuff. They even help youbring lasting change to your organization bydoing away with frustrating institutional inefficienciesonce and for all.Workarounds aren't only about getting thingsdone. They're about getting the right thingsdone. To ratchet up productivity, your organizationneeds someone who will ask the bigquestions, such as: How can our systems--from operationalinfrastructures to management processes--be more efficient and effective?Do we make the most of our talent?Do our teams work in isolation whencollaboration would be more useful?Are we wasting time, placing blame, andfighting fires when we couldinstead be fixing problems?Is our direction clear, aligned, and focused? Are you ready to be that person--the one who gets things done, no matter what? Workarounds That Work explains how toidentify problems that make workaroundsnecessary and then create the best solutionavailable--without sacrificing quality ordoing a less-than-stellar job.With Bishop's strategies at your disposal

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