Books for Wise Work

Making The Connection: Getting Work To Work is a call for working America to break out of the Dilbert syndrome and reconnect with the health, trust and joy that good work brings. Newspaper readers and radio listeners around the country are responding to Dr. Petrick's message: stop wallowing in the catharsis of organizational class welfare!

Work becomes a four letter word, not through "idiotic bosses" or "imbecile co-workers", but through an insidious addiction to bad work that has been overgrowing America like kudzu.

Making The Connection gives practical steps for breaking this addiction and returning to the health and joy of good work.

Making The Connection is the first book to pinpoint the critical role the board of directors play in your career survival. It outlines how to keep track of the board's activities as part of your own planning. And, most importantly, it reveals how you can influence the decisions of the board.

Work may seem like warfare.
And you may feel like a casualty!
But you can count on step-by-step instructions for taking charge of the battle in Making The Connection.

Book Review - Financial Woman Today

Making the Connection: Getting Work to Work aims to take away work's bad rap. Instead of assuming that work is just a place to wallow in mediocrity, à la Dilbert, author Jane Allen Petrick urges readers to "return to the health and joy of good work." She especially looks at the critical role that your board of directors plays in your career survival and ways that you can track and even influence the decisions of the board.
- Financial Woman Today, Spring 2000 Ed.

Book Review - Thomas R. Horton

If you want to improve your effectiveness in the workplace or help others improve theirs, then just grab a few copies of Jane Petrick's book and pass them around. Her wisdom applies all the way from the entry-level job to the boardroom. You will benefit from it at any stage in your career.
- Thomas R. Horton, Chairman and &CEO, Ret., American Management Association

Beyond Time Management picks up where traditional time management ends. Taking the reader through Ten Adages to Organize By, the book unlocks the key to understanding how to achieve a more effective, more balanced life.

Beyond Time Management is not about To Do Lists. In fact, in Beyond Time Management, readers learn why to do list are a major source of disorganization! This book is not about managing time. Time (at least mechanical time) can not be "managed": it literally marches on without us. Beyond Time Management is about managing values and priorities. In this book we come to understand why we fall into "priority dissonance" and persist in jamming up our mechanical time with things we don't want.

Beyond Time Management provides the reader with the human "why" of organizing, the "why" that has been missing from all the mechanical "how to's". Because, as adage #10 points out, "A person who has a 'why' to live can deal with almost any 'how'."

Do you know:

•	How to harness the power of your basic drive to organize so it will work for you, not against you?

•	What you really want? What you're really doing, and how to avoid the trap of priority dissonance?

•	How to organize for the competing goals in your life: work, family, and yourself?

•	The Real meaning of meetings?

•	Why out of sight, out of mind is a good thing?

•	Why your to do list is probably your biggest source of disorganization?

Book Review - WIN

A true pragmatist, (Petrick) counsels against 'meddling yourself into a mess'. She has written a 'why to' book, not a 'how to'. Try ideas only if they promise to enhance the 'why' of your life. This is consistent with her underlying thesis that human beings has an innate desire to make sense. Her book makes a great deal of sense.
- WIN, The Day-Timer Magazine of Achievement through Self-Management

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