The FiveHour Workday Live Differently Unlock Productivity and Find Happiness Stephan Aarstol 9781619614512 Books
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A century ago, Henry Ford saw a sea change in worker productivity. It was the industrial revolution. Where others saw only more profits, Ford had a much grander vision.
He invented the eight-hour workday, cut his employees' workdays nearly in half and doubled their pay. Productivity and profitability soared. By giving more to his workers, he changed the quality of life of an entire nation.
Today, we're in the midst of a massive productivity shift for knowledge workers. And yet, the eight-hour workday hasn't changed.
Until now, that is.
This book is about one company that simply asked why. A company that had the courage to try an experiment, toward re-inventing a more sensible, productive, and healthy workday for today's knowledge workers. That company is Tower Paddle Boards, one of the fastest-growing companies in the nation, and one of Mark Cuban's best Shark Tank investments.
In this book, you’ll learn how the five-hour workday
- Improves business operations, efficiency, and profitability
- Attracts the brightest minds, the hardest workers, and the best performers
- Stimulates employee performance and increases retention rates
- Can be implemented and tested at your company, temporarily and without risk
- Can change your life into something better than you ever imagined possible
The FiveHour Workday Live Differently Unlock Productivity and Find Happiness Stephan Aarstol 9781619614512 Books
A decent, well-written book that makes a case for a 5 hour workday. He spends a lot of time building the case for the idea, but not much time telling others how to do it. He does give a general idea of how companies can start the process, but again, it is not much of a solid plan. I would say that the weakness of the book from my perspective is that it does not really lay out a cohesive plan for an individual to implement the 5 hour workday. When you see a book titled "The Five Hour Workday" with a subtitle "Live Differently, Unlock Productivity, and Find Happiness" I think you are lead to think that it could apply to both individuals and companies. I do not think that is the case here. I'm sure I will get slammed for this review, but it is just my opinion.Product details
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The FiveHour Workday Live Differently Unlock Productivity and Find Happiness Stephan Aarstol 9781619614512 Books Reviews
I read this book, today. I haven’t read a book in a day in years. I’ve never read a book in a day at work; a meaningful book, that is. I saw an interview with the author this past weekend and became excited about the concept. I have a degree in engineering and have spent all of my career trying to “earn a living,” so that I could retire and enjoy life. I worked for oil companies, auto manufacturers and now I manage a small manufacturing company. I have tried my best to make improvements and provide our employees with a more satisfactory place to work, but nothing has hit me like Five Hour Workday. I have the owner on board and am making preparations to start this in the coming weeks.
This book was a great read and very inspirational.
UPDATE 02/21/2017 We implemented a three month trial of the 5-hour workday schedule on 10/24/2016. Of course we cheated and built up a large stockpile of inventory to help make the trial successful. Nevertheless, after more than 2 months we started seeing ship dates get tighter and shelves getting more empty. Instead of abandoning the trial, we decided to change the initial roll-out plan of no more than 5 -hours per day to "whatever it takes to maintain our product demands." To explain, we fall into a category that does not exactly fit the 5-hour schedule as prescribed in Aarstol's book. We are a manufacturing company, which means it takes a certain amount of time to manufacture the goods we sell. So we are almost 2 months into the new trial phase and we are averaging 5.55 hours per day for each employee. Some are working 5.0 and some are working 6.0 per day. Our new challenge is making certain that everyone is doing what they can to try to get our average down to 5.0 hours per day. This trial has really helped us find shortcomings in our processes as well as given people a sizable portion of their days back. So far, so good.
Yes! I read through this book so fast! I eagerly consumed it. It encompassed so much of what I've thought and experienced in the last 7 years, some of which I wasn't consciously aware of and some I was. It couldn't have come across my path at a more interesting time. Just after I requested to go to 30 hours and even offered to take a reduced pay at my job. The request was denied. I will see about pushing this book in front of some key people. I could have done without some of the profanity, which wasn't that frequent. Sometimes it didn't seem necessary but others it fit so well I didn't mind. I did find 2 editor misses ;) And was shipped with a sticky yucky residue on the covers.
This book needs to be read and passed on to as many people as possible! Hasten the revolution!
I was drawn to the book for its title but did not expect too much from it. I thought much of the book wouldn't apply to me, and maybe there will be some bits of useable tips for work hidden in its relatively lengthy text. I was very pleasantly surprised by how much the book won me over and inspired me to not only change the way I lead my team but also how I plan my life. The author
more passionate as the book progresses and at the end is borderline messianic in talking about the "Renaissance Economy", but I don't think his zeal discounts the core message that fundamentally we can be happier if we had more time for ourselves, and that time can be salvaged from a workday with little loss to productivity. I'm sure that it doesn't fit all industries, but as far as knowledge workers are concerned (of which I am one), this book presents a very persuasive argument, and offers a ray of hope to those still struggling with work life balance.
The Five-Hour Workday has my head spinning. I buy into Stephan's idea of the five hour work day and we're going to do a three month test at our 10 person company. We believe this will be better for our employees AND give us a huge competitive advantage in attracting talented employees. This book changes the rules of the game and every business owner should contemplate it.
The ideas in this book are worthy of five stars. I did find some of the book redundant and would have also appreciated more nuts and bolts advice on how to implement this concept (and/or more stories of lessons learned). Like many business books, it felt like it was stretched to fit a minimum quantity of pages. Maybe there's a follow-up, how-to/how-not-to book for Stephan after more companies experiment with the five hour work day.
A decent, well-written book that makes a case for a 5 hour workday. He spends a lot of time building the case for the idea, but not much time telling others how to do it. He does give a general idea of how companies can start the process, but again, it is not much of a solid plan. I would say that the weakness of the book from my perspective is that it does not really lay out a cohesive plan for an individual to implement the 5 hour workday. When you see a book titled "The Five Hour Workday" with a subtitle "Live Differently, Unlock Productivity, and Find Happiness" I think you are lead to think that it could apply to both individuals and companies. I do not think that is the case here. I'm sure I will get slammed for this review, but it is just my opinion.
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