Leading the Life You Want
Skills for Integrating Work and Life
Hardcover | 7 October 2014
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#7 on THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Bestseller List
Must professional accomplishments come at the expense of having a full life? Not according to Wharton professor and leadership and work-life expert Stewart D. Friedman. In his new book, Friedman identifies critical skills for leading an authentic and balanced life, and illustrates them through the compelling stories of six remarkable high-profile people.
He also shows how to develop and apply each skill through a series of exercises anyone can use. Each leader showcased in the book—Bruce Springsteen, Michelle Obama, Sheryl Sandberg, Tom Tierney, Eric Greitens, and Julie Foudy—exemplifies a specific set of skills for achieving greater harmony between work and life. Friedman identifies these discrete skills—for being real, being whole, and being innovative—that reduce conflict.
About the Author
Since 1984 Stew Friedman has been teaching at Wharton, where he is the Practice Professor of Management. In 1991 he founded both the Wharton Leadership Program--initiating the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses--and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. Stew served in the mental health field before earning his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan. In 2001 he concluded a two-year assignment (while on leave from Wharton) at Ford, as the senior executive for leadership development.
Stew is the author of Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (Wharton Digital, 2008) and Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014). The Total Leadership program is used worldwide, including by the 57,000+ students in Stew's recent Coursera MOOC. He advises many organizations, gives high-energy keynotes, and is an award-winning teacher. The New York Times cited the "rock star adoration" he inspires in students. He was chosen by Working Mother as one of America's twenty-five most influential men to have made things better for working parents, and by Thinkers50 as one of the "world's top fifty business thinkers." The Families and Work Institute honored him with a Work Life Legacy Award.
Must professional accomplishments come at the expense of having a full life? Not according to Wharton professor and leadership and work-life expert Stewart D. Friedman. In his new book, Friedman identifies critical skills for leading an authentic and balanced life, and illustrates them through the compelling stories of six remarkable high-profile people.
He also shows how to develop and apply each skill through a series of exercises anyone can use. Each leader showcased in the book—Bruce Springsteen, Michelle Obama, Sheryl Sandberg, Tom Tierney, Eric Greitens, and Julie Foudy—exemplifies a specific set of skills for achieving greater harmony between work and life. Friedman identifies these discrete skills—for being real, being whole, and being innovative—that reduce conflict.
About the Author
Since 1984 Stew Friedman has been teaching at Wharton, where he is the Practice Professor of Management. In 1991 he founded both the Wharton Leadership Program--initiating the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership courses--and the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project. Stew served in the mental health field before earning his PhD in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan. In 2001 he concluded a two-year assignment (while on leave from Wharton) at Ford, as the senior executive for leadership development.
Stew is the author of Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family (Wharton Digital, 2008) and Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life (Harvard Business Review Press, 2014). The Total Leadership program is used worldwide, including by the 57,000+ students in Stew's recent Coursera MOOC. He advises many organizations, gives high-energy keynotes, and is an award-winning teacher. The New York Times cited the "rock star adoration" he inspires in students. He was chosen by Working Mother as one of America's twenty-five most influential men to have made things better for working parents, and by Thinkers50 as one of the "world's top fifty business thinkers." The Families and Work Institute honored him with a Work Life Legacy Award.
Industry Reviews
Included in Forbes "Eight Noteworthy Books of 2014" list.
"In 2008, I chose Stewart Friedman's Total Leadership as the top book in the Personal Development category of our annual business book awards... Friedman [now] builds on his previous work by presenting the stories of six well-known personalities who exemplify the well-integrated life... Then, in the second half of the book, which acts as a workbook complete with exercises, uses their successes and struggles, as points of reference as he teaches us how to develop the necessary skills." -- Jack Covert, 800 CEO READ
"Friedman's accessible book is a significant entry in the work/life balance category." -- Publishers Weekly
"In his new book Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life, [Friedman] explores the idea that truly winning people over "starts with knowing what you care about, and then being able to express that in ways other people can relate to...'" -- Laura Vanderkam, Fast Company
"Friedman gives you tools to help you craft your own approach... a great starting point to learn about leading the life you want." -- Stephanie Denning, FORBES
"In Leading the Life You Want, Stewart Friedman masterfully weaves together six life narratives to show exactly how any of us can live a more richly integrated, meaningful and satisfying life with others." -- Kare Anderson, The Huffington Post
"In his newest book, Leading the Life You Want, Friedman explores the skills you need to be a leader, how to develop them, and how to devote your life to your work without losing everything that's important to you." -- Will Yakowicz, Inc.
"[Friedman's] conceptual framework provides a useful way of looking at the work-life issue. It holds out the hope that we don't have to make trade-offs between different parts of our lives; we can combine them." -- Coaching Today (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)
"It seems that everyone has an opinion on work/life balance these days, but Stewart D. Friedman's Leading the Life You Want isn't necessarily one of them. Well, it is, but it's also a lot more." -- Consulting Magazine
"In Leading the Life You Want, [Friedman] profiles top leaders--from Sheryl Sandberg to Michelle Obama, and Bruce Springsteen to former Bain & Co. CEO Tom Tierney--and tells their stories, explaining how their choices enable them to thrive in multiple realms of their lives." -- Dorie Clark, Forbes
"In 2008, I chose Stewart Friedman's Total Leadership as the top book in the Personal Development category of our annual business book awards... Friedman [now] builds on his previous work by presenting the stories of six well-known personalities who exemplify the well-integrated life... Then, in the second half of the book, which acts as a workbook complete with exercises, uses their successes and struggles, as points of reference as he teaches us how to develop the necessary skills." -- Jack Covert, 800 CEO READ
"Friedman's accessible book is a significant entry in the work/life balance category." -- Publishers Weekly
"In his new book Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life, [Friedman] explores the idea that truly winning people over "starts with knowing what you care about, and then being able to express that in ways other people can relate to...'" -- Laura Vanderkam, Fast Company
"Friedman gives you tools to help you craft your own approach... a great starting point to learn about leading the life you want." -- Stephanie Denning, FORBES
"In Leading the Life You Want, Stewart Friedman masterfully weaves together six life narratives to show exactly how any of us can live a more richly integrated, meaningful and satisfying life with others." -- Kare Anderson, The Huffington Post
"In his newest book, Leading the Life You Want, Friedman explores the skills you need to be a leader, how to develop them, and how to devote your life to your work without losing everything that's important to you." -- Will Yakowicz, Inc.
"[Friedman's] conceptual framework provides a useful way of looking at the work-life issue. It holds out the hope that we don't have to make trade-offs between different parts of our lives; we can combine them." -- Coaching Today (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)
"It seems that everyone has an opinion on work/life balance these days, but Stewart D. Friedman's Leading the Life You Want isn't necessarily one of them. Well, it is, but it's also a lot more." -- Consulting Magazine
"In Leading the Life You Want, [Friedman] profiles top leaders--from Sheryl Sandberg to Michelle Obama, and Bruce Springsteen to former Bain & Co. CEO Tom Tierney--and tells their stories, explaining how their choices enable them to thrive in multiple realms of their lives." -- Dorie Clark, Forbes
ISBN: 9781422189412
ISBN-10: 1422189414
Published: 7th October 2014
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 24.1 x 16.3 x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.49
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