Real Flow: Break the Burnout Cycle and Unlock High Performance in the New World of Work (ePub)

Your organization is capable of higher performance than you imagined possible when you shift to Real Flow.

Business leaders have seen it before. Teams that should be achieving great work with ease are caught in a wild frenzy of competing priorities. Gradually their people suffer burnout, innovation evaporates, and time and energy are wasted on the wrong problems.

Thanks to this organizational multitasking, their organization is flooding from the pressure to do it all. But there is an unexpected solution to achieve high performance once again.

Organizational agility expert Brandi Olson brings front and center what happens when an organization chases too many priorities simultaneously. Featuring 140 interviews with organizational leaders, Real Flow demonstrates the principles of flow that will create the environment teams need to achieve and sustain high performance. Integrating cognitive science, organizational agility, and Lean principles, this is your guide to deliver exceptional value and enable people to be happy, healthy, and engaged in their work.

Discover:

• The costly link between competing priorities, multitasking and burnout and why no amount of vacation, self-care, or team-building activities will solve it.
• How to embrace the ecosystem paradigm and the direct impact it has on an organization's ability to adapt, change and thrive.
• Strategies to remedy the burnout problem that don't involve doing less, expecting less or shrinking the to-do list.
• How to redefine performance to maximize human potential for the long-term over the short term and what that will do for your teams.
• The essential practice of limiting work in progress to improve the flow of value, plus the radical effect it has on solving the challenges your organization is facing.

Leaders don't need to choose between good work and their teams' well-being. Leading a high performance organization depends on happy, healthy people. Read Real Flow and cultivate an evidence-driven approach to design a high-performing, agile organization, improve employee retention and stop the burnout for good.