Just Enough

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Harvard Business School luminaries Howard Stevenson and Laura Nash introduce a revolutionary new definition of success that is made of four tenets -- achievement, significance, happiness and legacy. Based on extensive research that includes interviews with hundreds of professionals, Just Enough explores why success seems more elusive all the time, despite a proliferation of gurus and methods that promise to make it easy. They conclude that many of the problems of success today can be traced back to misconceptions about its nature, unnecessary expectations, and ignorance of the many elements that constitute true success. Through their interviews with people from all walks of life, at all levels of professional achievement, Stevenson and Nash show where the most well-balanced among us are focusing their energy, and why. Special Feature An Incisive Look At Success: Just Enough offers an accessible, refreshing approach that leads readers to develop new, healthy approaches to achievement and happiness. Covering topics such as goal-setting, decision-making and prioritizing, this promises to redefine success. The authors disarm the allure of celebrity success, presenting a model of success that's within everyone's reach.

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Laura Nash is Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Business School. A leader for twenty years in the field of business ethics, she has authored over half a dozen books on the subject, including Good Intentions Aside (HBS Press, hc 1990, pb 1993), which the Financial Times called "probably the best of the genre now in offer," and Church on Sunday, Work on Monday (Jossey-Bass, 2001), which garnered a full-page feature in Investment Advisor and was featured on NPR's "Morning Marketplace. She has been founder and CEO of several successful firms, and in the past three years has been featured or quoted in The New York Times, Inc., Fortune, The Economist, Financial Times, and Entrepreneurism. A frequent speaker to HBS alumni and executive groups, he also addresses high-profile executive groups about a dozen times a year. Table of Contents Preface. Acknowledgments. PART ONE: MOVING TARGETS. 1. Stress! Excess! Success? 2. The Dangers of Going for the Max. 3. The Satisfactions of Just Enough Success. PART TWO: THE KALEIDOSCOPE STRATEGY. 4. Your Success Profile. 5. Who Are You? And Why Are You Doing That? 6. Complex Patterns in Real Life. PART THREE: JUST ENOUGH. 7. Making Successful Choices. 8. Further Calibrations of Enough. 9. Just Enough for a Lifetime. Epilogue. Notes. Index.