Sturt - Great work : how to make a difference people love

PRAISE FOR GREAT WORK

David Sturts Great Work is brilliantly conceived, expertly executed, and powerfully motivating. Just two chapters into the book I found myself scribbling down my own ideas to make a difference people love. Great Work is a great work.

Richard Paul Evans
#1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and
USA Today bestselling author

Great Work funnels a vast amount of research into sensible, readable vignettes that resonate with the day-to-day challenges faced by operating managers. Using stories, Sturt pulls the reader into situations that he will certainly recognize. The result evolves into a leadership framework that is practical, memorable, and useful. If you aspire to lead a team to greatness, Great Work should be your handbook.

Gary Crittenden
CEO and Managing Partner, HGGC
Former CFO of Citigroup, American Express, Monsanto, Sears

Great work is not driven by what you are, but rather by what you do. You dont need an outsized personality, an enormously high IQ, or a killer presentation style. You dont need to become someone you are not. Apply the principles found in this book and discover remarkable dreams are truly within your reach.

Whitney Johnson
author of Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things
Happen When You Dare to Dream
Harvard Business Review contributor

Great Work captures the heart and mind of the reader through the deeds of ordinary people doing extraordinary work. A quick read that provides sound research on the paradigms and patterns of thinking and behaving that result in Great Work. If you are looking for breakthrough innovation and creativity from your people or they are looking at you for this kind of leadership, then youll want to read this book. So simple, but yet so powerful!!!

Tom Carroll
EVP Chief Human Resources Officer
RR Donnelley

This business book invoked a wide range of feelings from inspired and ignited to tear-infused and thought-provoking. It fed my soul, spirit, and business acumen all at the same time.

David Sturt celebrates and calls each of us as people and leaders to look for the difference we can create and deliver. No matter the role or title of our work, these stories connect us to inspire, transform, and lead.

Humans are our worlds greatest resource and innovation is humanitys best tool; thanks to David Sturt for shining the light on common people making an uncommon difference.

Great inspiration; great business; great impact; GREAT WORK!

Dana Ullom-Vucelich
Chief Human Resources Officer, OPRS

We all know difference makers who, in small ways, make a profound impact on how we work and live. Thanks to David Sturt and O.C. Tanner Institute for helping us recognize and celebrate them.

Tom Post
Managing Editor
Forbes Media

As an individual who has experienced and surpassed many obstacles in order to achieve my own dreams of accomplishing Great Work, I am highly compelled by this new book and by the new research that it represents. I recommend it to everyone, from every background, who is inspired by the idea of having remarkable dreams to achieve.

Barbara Corcoran
The Corcoran Groupreal estate mogul, business expert,
and a Shark on ABCs hit series Shark Tank

Great Work is a great work. It captures how people and organizations can help their employees have both passion and productivity at work. The five tools (ask, see, talk, improve the mix, and deliver) are well grounded in research and practice. The marvelous stories bring the ideas to life and offer specific tools any employee or leader can use. The ideas in the book educate, inspire, and capture the essence of a new way to produce great work.

Dave Ulrich
Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Partner, The RBL Group

I was so inspired by this book. I felt this surge of excitement, energy, perseverance, and passion from so many case studies that I feel I could take my work beyond great. I always have the greatest faith in humanity, that we are capable of anything, but in order to do that it takes the passion, risk, foresight, rigor, and perseverance to think outside the box to think beyond status quo, seeing problems as opportunities, to leap into contributing great work to the world. This book is a fabulous inspiration and methodology for exactly that. There is nothing greater than great work.

Karim Rashid
Internationally recognized designer

Tremendous! This masterful piece of research in story form has us asking the right questions to orient ourselves before getting started. It has us talking to our outer circle in a world that sorely needs broader collaboration and greater trust. It has us seeing new things and looking at our work with new eyes. Great Work has me believing anyone can deliver a differenceand I predict that making a difference people love will embed itself in our lexicon for decades to come.

Stephen M. R. Covey
author of the New York Times and
#1 Wall Street Journal bestseller
The Speed of Trust

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