Tweak It: Make What Matters to You Happen Every Day

by Cali Williams Yost

Overview

As the demands of work grow more intense, personal life can get shoved to the side. But resolving the job-versus-life conflict doesn't require the kind of big, disruptive, scary transformation that so many time-management "experts" recommend. In Tweak it, Cali Williams Yost proves that a comfortable work+life fit can be achieved through making small, consistent, everyday changes -- tweaks -- that, cumulatively, will optimize job performance and well-being. This engaging, practical book, filled with case studies of people who've tweaked their way to professional success and personal satisfaction, guides readers through an easy-to-implement program that can be tailored to suit any individual's life, both on off the job.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455517862
Publisher:	Center Street
Publication date:	01/08/2013
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	779 KB

About the Author

Cali Williams Yost has been shaping the global dialogue on work+life flexibility for nearly two decades. Yost is the CEO and founder of Work+Life Fit, Inc., a research and consulting firm that develops and implements the broad-ranging organizational and personal flexibility strategies that have become a strategic imperative for global business success. Clients range from BDO Seidman, LLP and Quaker/Tropicana to the United Nations, Ernst & Young and the U.S. Navy. A former commercial banker and graduate of Columbia Business School, Yost is author of the critically acclaimed Work+Life: Finding the Fit That's Right for You, the first "work+life "fit" handbook for individuals.

Editorial Reviews

Cali Yost is one of our wisest and staunchest thought leaders. In TWEAK IT, she delivers a brilliant mix of deeply researched and deeply practical advice that will improve the life of anyone who acts on it. A must-read book for anyone who is overextended, overworked—and passionate about their lives.—Susan Cain, bestselling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts

Organizational culture, management support, and human resource policies are important, but, ultimately, it is the individual who must determine their fit, and manage the process of achieving it. Cali Yost's latest contribution to the field, TWEAK IT, provides individuals with a simple yet elegant way to take hold of their lives and, in doing so, achieve their personal and professional goals. Filled with real-life cases and easy to execute tips and "how to's", TWEAK IT illustrates vividly how small changes can have a big impact on the quality of our lives and our relationships with those who matter most.—Professor Brad Harrington, Executive Director, Boston College Center for Work & Family

I'm grateful to TWEAK IT for helping me make meaningful tweaks to my hectic work+life fit. In just the first week, I made a date to see my mom for dinner, set a schedule to walk with my husband a few times a week, and remembered to prioritize spending 10 minutes a day with each of my kids. Cali's mindful approach, and her stories about work+life fit naturals, offer up the possibility that we can all, in her words, "make what matters happen every day."—Julie Burstein, author of Spark: How Creativity Works

From the Publisher

I'm grateful to TWEAK IT for helping me make meaningful tweaks to my hectic work+life fit. In just the first week, I made a date to see my mom for dinner, set a schedule to walk with my husband a few times a week, and remembered to prioritize spending 10 minutes a day with each of my kids. Cali's mindful approach, and her stories about work+life fit naturals, offer up the possibility that we can all, in her words, "make what matters happen every day."

Julie Burstein

Organizational culture, management support, and human resource policies are important, but, ultimately, it is the individual who must determine their fit, and manage the process of achieving it. Cali Yost's latest contribution to the field, TWEAK IT, provides individuals with a simple yet elegant way to take hold of their lives and, in doing so, achieve their personal and professional goals. Filled with real-life cases and easy to execute tips and "how to's", TWEAK IT illustrates vividly how small changes can have a big impact on the quality of our lives and our relationships with those who matter most.

Professor Brad Harrington

Cali Yost is one of our wisest and staunchest thought leaders. In TWEAK IT, she delivers a brilliant mix of deeply researched and deeply practical advice that will improve the life of anyone who acts on it. A must-read book for anyone who is overextended, overworked--and passionate about their lives.

Susan Cain

The goal of this well-intentioned audiobook is to promote the value of making continuous daily adjustments—to break out of ineffective habits and begin activities that move us closer to what we want from life. The strategies offered are often cluttered with information and repetitive references to other time-management authors or bloggers. Hindered further by complex sentences and lists, the book’s flow of life management ideas never finds its rhythm. Despite these challenges, narrator Sarah Zimmerman gets almost all the phrasing right and delivers a performance that conveys both charm and inviting urgency. Even when the book’s prescriptions sound self-evident and the concept of “tweaking it” begins to sound tired, she holds it together with her can-do tone and appealing speaking voice. T.W. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2013 - AudioFile

The goal of this well-intentioned audiobook is to promote the value of making continuous daily adjustments—to break out of ineffective habits and begin activities that move us closer to what we want from life. The strategies offered are often cluttered with information and repetitive references to other time-management authors or bloggers. Hindered further by complex sentences and lists, the book’s flow of life management ideas never finds its rhythm. Despite these challenges, narrator Sarah Zimmerman gets almost all the phrasing right and delivers a performance that conveys both charm and inviting urgency. Even when the book’s prescriptions sound self-evident and the concept of “tweaking it” begins to sound tired, she holds it together with her can-do tone and appealing speaking voice. T.W. © AudioFile 2013, Portland, Maine

APRIL 2013 - AudioFile