Effective - by Melissa Swift (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Navigate the weird, chaotic world of modern work, no matter your position

While there's no shortage of advice on being amazing or avoiding burnout, what if you simply want to get things done in a workplace that feels increasingly impossible? Effective is here to help you get your job done well without losing your mind. Drawing from up-to-date research and provocative interviews with employees across industries and levels, renowned people consultant Melissa Swift offers a positive, well-illuminated path through the dark forest of destabilizing workplace changes.

Effective provides readers with:

• Strategies to triumph amid four trends making work tough today: work intensification, emotional inflection, hyper-transparency, and sheer chaos
• Practical, research-backed approaches to improve their daily work life, from entry-level employees to CEOs
• Tips for maintaining competence in a working world seemingly designed to make you feel incompetent
• Insights on how to make sure your personal sources of effectiveness don't get disrupted by technological change
• Lessons to be learned from jobs where you simply cannot screw up, such as firefighters and air traffic controllers, and how to apply them to a corporate environment

Effective delivers useful content for every level of seniority, teaching readers a new paradigm-shifting approach to thrive in the modern world of work.

From the Back Cover

PRAISE FOR EFFECTIVE

"Effective is a rare blend of rigor and humanity. Melissa Swift gives leaders and employees a shared language for what 'good work' actually looks like across roles, industries, and moments of real pressure. If you care about building organizations where people can be effective and sane, this is essential reading."
--NICK AVERY, Chief People Officer at Carta

"In this book, Melissa Swift answers the one question everyone is asking today: 'Knowing work is a mess, what can I actually do differently?' Swift offers a compassionate, practical 'third way' Effectiveness. Moving beyond the tired battle between 'fix the worker' and 'fix the system, ' this book hands the power back to you. With wit, empathy, and deep industry insight, Swift builds an 'Effectiveness Architecture' to help you withstand the forces crushing modern workers--without losing yourself in the process."
--DR. ANNA TAVIS, Clinical Professor and Chair of the Human Capital Management Department at NYU's School of Professional Studies, Author of Humans at Work and The Digital Coaching Revolution

"What stands out about Effective is its respect for fundamentals. It shows how clarity, preparation, and strong systems enable people to perform reliably--even in chaotic, fast-moving environments. I can't imagine a single industry where that doesn't resonate today."
--MICHAEL STEEN, CEO of Atlas Air Worldwide

About the Author

MELISSA SWIFT is a leading voice on how organizations, teams, and individuals can succeed in an ever more challenging world of work.

As founder and CEO of Anthrome Insight, she is a practicing consultant and keynote speaker helping -organizations with data-driven views and concrete actions to shape a -productive future in chaotic times. She has held consulting leadership roles at Capgemini, Mercer, Korn Ferry, and Deloitte, and is also the author of Work Here Now: Think Like a Human and Build a Powerhouse Workplace.

Her quarterly columns in MIT Sloan Management Review often rank among their most-read articles. Swift speaks regularly at events including the MIT CIO Symposium, and has been -featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Newsweek.

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