Tony Schwartz's Blog


Leadership
February 21, 2012
"My manager expects me to be at my desk from 9 to 5," a highly successful salesperson lamented during a break at a session I was delivering at a progressive company in Silicon Valley. "I love my job," she went on, "but I have an hour and fifteen minute commute each way, and it's just wearing me down.""Could you do your work from home?" I asked."Absolutely," she told me.How crazy is that? Her boss shouldn't just be allowing her to work from home, he ought to be encouraging it.

Purpose, Spiritual Needs
February 9, 2012
Why are you here? It's arguably life's most important question, but is it one you ask yourself?I recognize it's a question some people might view as self-indulgent, while others would see it primarily through a religious lens. But is there any part of an answer we could all agree on?I've found a very simple one for myself, and it's provided me in recent years with an increasingly powerful sense of clarity, inspiration and even joy. It's this: I'm here to add more value to the world than I'm using up.