Wall Street Journal Bestseller
A groundbreaking approach to succeeding in business and life, using
the science of resourcefulness.
We often think the key to success and satisfaction is to get more: more
money, time, and possessions; bigger budgets, job titles, and teams; and
additional resources for our professional and personal goals. It turns
out we're wrong.
Using captivating stories to illustrate research in psychology and
management, Rice University professor Scott Sonenshein examines why some
people and organizations succeed with so little, while others fail with
so much.
People and organizations approach resources in two different ways:
"chasing" and "stretching." When chasing, we exhaust ourselves in the
pursuit of more. When stretching, we embrace the resources we already
have. This frees us to find creative and productive ways to solve
problems, innovate, and engage our work and lives more fully.
Stretch shows why everyone--from executives to entrepreneurs,
professionals to parents, athletes to artists--performs better with
constraints; why seeking too many resources undermines our work and
well-being; and why even those with a lot benefit from making the most
out of a little.
Drawing from examples in business, education, sports, medicine, and
history, Scott Sonenshein advocates a powerful framework of
resourcefulness that allows anybody to work and live better.
