Drawing on extensive work with an extra-ordinary range of organizations, among them Google, Ford, Sony, Ernst & Young, Shell, IBM, the Los Angeles Police Department, and the Cleveland Clinic, Schwartz creates a road map for a new way of working that focuses on four core needs that energize great...

The energy matrix -- Mobilizing your organization's energy: escaping the complacency trap -- Rebuilding positive energy: escaping the corrosion trap -- Focusing your organization's energy: escaping the acceleration trap -- Sustaining energy to rise above "number one": getting beyond the traps --...