POWERED BY FEEL

How do world-class performing individuals, teams, and companies do what they do? Would you like to know how to perform at your best on a regular basis? This book reveals the results of research involving interviews with hundreds of world-class performers in athletics, business, music, medicine and the military. It also includes the lessons learned from global consulting experiences, involving feel, with a wide and diverse group of corporate executives and independent contributors. Learn how to take your performance to the next level and enjoy it more in the process. Beginning with the answer to a simple question, the authors describe the role of FEEL in world-class performance and how you can make it work for you. This book goes well beyond the cliché of “you need to love what you do and have passion for your work.”

Interviewees represented in the book include the following: Olympic Gold Medalists; World Champion Archer; Best-Selling Mystery Author; National Champion Swimmers; FBI Criminal Profiler; Space Shuttle Astronaut; NBA, MLB, and collegiate Coaches of the Year; Former All-Pro and Hall of Fame football player; Professional Poker Champion; Heart Surgeon; NCAA All Americans and Players of the Year; CEOs of several major corporations in services, biotech, financial services, consumer marketing and other businesses; Grammy Award Winners, and more.

Contents:

Pick-Up
Feel
Professionalism
Success
Inside-Out
Informed Energy
Habits
Routines
Dreams
Preparation
Obligation
Obstacles
Lost
Found
Bad Suits
First Day
Identity
Inspiration
Learning
Educate
Control Watching
When It Matters Most
Payback
Work
Find It
Sustenance
Horsing It
Physics
Numbers Game
Master of the Numbers
Triangle Tradeoffs
Freedom
Responsibility
Respond-Ability
Power
Powerful
Abuse
Abusive
You've Got Next
The Game with No Name

Readership: Managers and employees who want to improve performance at work; anyone aspiring to unleash their potential to excel; individuals struggling with work/life balance and/or dissatisfied with their work experience.

“The most important question that you probably have NOT asked yourself is 'How do you want to feel?' The answer will change your life and Powered by Feel helps you craft a response that busts through the cluttered Maginot line of arguments we use to defend our maladaptive habits in life. You will pass it along to family, friends and co-workers — I did.”

Mehmet Oz
Vice-Chairman of Surgery
Columbia University Medical School, XM Radio Talk Show Host

“In this groundbreaking book, Jim Clawson and Doug Newburg demonstrate that the highest levels of human performance are driven by emotional congruity. In other words, high performers feel good about what they do. The authors describe 'how world-class performers, touring musicians, Olympic athletes, heart surgeons, high growth executives, and aircraft carrier landing crews have learned how to manage how they feel in order to improve their performance.' Of course you don't have to be a world record holder or a heart surgeon to take advantage of the lessons in this brilliant work. In the old paradigm, feelings didn't matter; all that counted was thought and action. But it turns out that feelings drive our behavior and determine our level of performance. And they are the heart of the experience of fulfillment. In these pages Clawson and Newburg serve as Socratic guides to your discovery of optimal feeling for high performance and fulfillment.”

Michael J Gelb
Author of How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci and Innovate Like Edison

“Powered by Feel shows we've been leading our lives and our organizations backwards. Through compelling examples and heartwrenching stories, find a fresh approach to motivation and accountability that feels right, plays well, moves us forward, and works. This book should be at the top of everyone's reading list. Wow.”

Marcia L Conner
Former VP at PeopleSoftSr Manager at Microsoft

“Using a free-flowing, unique ‘pass-and-catch’ approach, Jim Clawson and Doug Newburg stimulate and provoke the reader with their ideas about how to find the exhilaration — the ‘feel’ — that most of us want in our lives. Drawing on their own and others' research on world-class performers, they provide dozens of examples that will lead you to think about how you want to feel in your own life. More importantly, they provide a framework for how to get there.”

Randolph New
Professor of Management and former Dean
Robins School of Business, University of Richmond

“Powered by Feel offers useful nuggets of information to ponder … some parts of the book intelligently picks over some interesting facets of the human psyche … The book is well-documented … A good read for people who want to find the ‘feel’ missing in their lives.”

The Star Online

316pp		Pub. date: Dec 2008
ISBN: 978-981-281-892-8(pbk) 981-281-892-8(pbk)		US$28 / £15

316pp		Pub. date: Dec 2008
ISBN: 978-981-283-243-6(ebook) 981-283-243-2(ebook)		US$36 / £19

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