Stewart D. Friedman

How working parents can lead more purposeful lives, characterized by harmony, connection, and impact. Parents in today's fast-paced, disorienting world can easily lose track of who they are and what really matters most. But it doesn't have to be this way. As a parent, you can harness the powerful science of leadership in order to thrive in all aspects of your life. Drawing on the principles of his book Total Leadership --a bestseller and popular leadership development program used in organizations worldwide--and on their experience as researchers, educators, consultants, coaches, and parents, Stew Friedman and coauthor Alyssa Westring offer a robust, proven method that will help you gain a greater sense of purpose and control. It includes tools illustrated with compelling examples from the lives of real working parents that show you how to:

“Students talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star adoration.” — New York TimesNow more than ever, your success as a leader isn't just about being a great business person. You've got to be a great person, performing well in all domains of your life -- your work, your home, your community, and your private self.That's a tall order.The good news is that, contrary to conventional wisdom about "balance," you don't have to assume that these domains compete in a zero-sum game. Total Leadership is a game-changing blueprint for how to perform well as a leader not by trading off one domain for another, but by finding mutual value among all four. Stew Friedman shows you how to achieve these "four-way wins" as a leader who

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller“For nearly thirty years, my life’s work has been to help people like you find ways to bring the often warring aspects of life into greater harmony.” — Stew Friedman, from Leading the Life You WantYou’re busy trying to lead a “full” life. But does it really feel full—or are you stretched too thin? Enter Stew Friedman, Wharton professor, adviser to leaders across the globe, and passionate advocate of replacing the misguided metaphor of “work/life balance” with something more realistic and sustainable. If you’re seeking “balance” you’ll never achieve it, argues Friedman. The idea that “work” competes with “life” ignores the more nuanced reality of our humanity—the interaction of four work, home, community, and the private self. The goal is to create harmony among them instead of thinking only in terms of trade-offs. It can be done.Building on his national bestseller, Total Leadership , and on decades of research, teaching, and practice as both consultant and senior executive, Friedman identifies the critical skills for integrating work and the rest of life. He illustrates them through compelling original stories of these remarkable • former Bain & Company CEO and Bridgespan co-founder Tom Tierney• Facebook COO and bestselling author Sheryl Sandberg• nonprofit leader and US Navy SEAL Eric Greitens• US First Lady Michelle Obama• soccer champion-turned-broadcaster Julie Foudy• renowned artist Bruce SpringsteenEach of these admirable (though surely imperfect) people exemplifies a set of skills—for being real, being whole, and being innovative—that produce a sense of purpose, coherence, and optimism.Based on interviews and research, their stories paint a vivid picture of how six very different leaders use these skills to act with authenticity, integrity, and creativity—and they prove that significant public success is accomplished not at the expense of the rest of life, but as the result of meaningful engagement in all its parts . With dozens of practical exercises for strengthening these skills, curated from the latest research in organizational psychology and related fields, this book will inspire you, inform you, and instruct you on how to take realistic steps now toward leading the life you truly want.

Lean in. Opt out. Have it all. None of the above.A new book based on a groundbreaking cross-generational study reveals both greater freedom and new constraints for men and women in their work and family lives.Stew Friedman, founding director of The Wharton School's Work/Life Integration Project, studied two generations of Wharton college students as they graduated: Gen Xers in 1992 and Millennials in 2012. The cross-generational study produced a stark discovery—the rate of graduates who plan to have children has dropped by nearly half over the past 20 years. At the same time, men and women are now more aligned in their attitudes about dual-career relationships, and they are opting out of parenthood in equal proportions. But their reasons for doing so are quite different.In his new book, Baby Bust: New Choices for Men and Women in Work and Family , Friedman draws on this unique research to explain why so many young people are not planning to become parents. He reveals good news, that there is a greater freedom of choice now, and bad, that new constraints are limiting people's options. In light of these present realities, he offers ideas for what we can do as a society, in our organizations, and for ourselves to make it easier for men and women to choose the lives they want.In this book, Friedman addresses:+ How views about work and family have changed in the past 20 years+ Why men and women have different reasons for opting out of parenthood+ How family has been redefined+ Why we are all now part of a revolution in work and family+ What choices we face in our social and educational policy+ How organizations and individuals—especially men—can spur cultural changeIn the debates on work and family, people of all generations are calling for a reasoned, thoughtful, research-driven contribution to the discussion. In Baby Bust , Friedman offers just that: an astute assessment of how far we have come and where we need to go from here.

This volume focuses on the most critical strategic activity in any organization, namely, who gets chosen to sit in the top echelon of the pyramid. Friedman argues that it is the quality of corporate leadership that will determine corporate winners and losers in the global competitive game.The stakes in leadership succession are high. The selection of key figures is the one human resource activity that no one belittles for being of secondary importance. Indeed, leadership succession is so important and central in many executive minds that it crowds out any other work. The succession process is often fraught with political intrigue, it lacks discipline, and excludes meaningful involvement of senior human resource executives.The contributors to this imaginative volume reveal a succession planning process that is frequently sloppy, superficial, and regularly sabotaged by senior management when they give it short shrift in terms of quality time. In addition, senior management often overrides sound decisions when it comes to filling key positions. The result is a lack of integrity throughout the human resource systems that eventually leads to a collapse of belief in the system and its governance.Noel M. Tichy, a leading figure in the studies of human resource management, has said, "Stewart Friedman is to be congratulated for a successful effort in providing a state of the art look at leadership succession. [He] provides us with an empirical database of what is happening in U.S. corporations, helpful prescriptions for future improvement of leadership succession, and a realistic assessment of the human resource executive challenges in this area."

Strike a balance! Practical and powerful, Integrating Work and Life offers you a treasury of learning activities that were developed by leading-edge companies and by trainers, educators, and agents of change in the public and private sectors. With this guide at your side, you can help employees to achieve both business and personal success. Employees will learn Plus, you can teach current managers--and future managers--about the work/life issues employees face and how to handle these issues. This reproducible, thoughtfully assembled collection is based on a framework developed through extensive field research. It includes role plays, case studies, self-assessments, and simulations. You can quickly select the activity you need by subject area, by teaching method, or by target audience. Conduct these easy-implementation activities and enjoy tangible results! Try a free sample activity, Clarifying Priorities and Building a Network of Support, and learn how you can make this resource work for you!

We've come a long way since the classic book The Organization Man first introduced the "ideal" 2-person career--a full-time male breadwinner and a stay-at-home wife. What typified the '50s good life is in stark contrast to contemporary reality: 63% of all married women with children under six years old are in the workforce and 40% of all workers are part of a dual-earner couple.Work and Family--Allies or Enemies? offers a fresh new lens for viewing the real struggles that business professionals face in their daily battle to find ways of "getting a life" and "having it all." Based on a pioneering study that surveyed more than 800 business professionals, this volume will help readers understand and deal with the effects of gender, professional culture, and social expectations, on the evolving roles of men and women in crafting an integrated life. A rich, inspiring, and at times disturbing look at how work and family affect the lives of men and women trying to manage the complexities of modern living, the authors argue that it is critical to learn how to manage the boundaries between work and family, to handle ambiguity, to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and to build networks of support at work and in the community. Work and Family--Allies or Enemies? offers a prescription for success that requires that all parties--individuals, employers, andsociety--clarify what is important, recognize and support the whole person, and continually experiment with new ways to achieve meaningful goals.

Skupiasz sie na tym aby caly czas zyc pelnia zycia Tylko czy to twoje zycie faktycznie jest takie pelne Czy aby przypadkiem za bardzo sie nie rozdrabniasz Posluchaj co ma ci do powiedzenia Stew Friedman profesor Wharton School ktory doradza liderom z calego swiata Friedman walczy z bledna koncepcja rownowagi miedzy praca a zyciem szukajac dla niej bardziej realistycznej zrownowazonej i sensownej alternatywy Twierdzi ze przeciwstawianie sobie pracy i zycia swiadczy o niezrozumieniu jednego z bardzo waznych aspektow naszego czlowieczenstwa a mianowicie zwiazkow i zaleznosci wystepujacych miedzy czterema glownymi sferami naszej egzystencji Te sfery to zycie zawodowe zycie rodzinne zycie spoleczne oraz zycie prywatne Friedman uwaza ze aktywnosci w tych sferach nie nalezy postrzegac jako wzajemnie wykluczajacych sie lecz nalezy dazyc do ich harmonijnej integracji Na potwierdzenie swoich tez przytacza zyciorysy szesciu wyjatkowych osob bylego dyrektora generalnego Bain ampampamp Company oraz wspolzalozyciela Bridgespan Group Toma Thierneya dyrektor operacyjnej i bestsellerowej autorki Sheryl Sandberg znanej osobistosci swiata non profit a zarazem komandosa US Navy SEAL Erica Greitensa Pierwszej Damy Stanow Zjednoczonych Michelle Obamy pilkarki i eksperta telewizyjnego Julie Foudy oraz znanego muzyka Brucea Springsteena Kazda z tych wyjatkowych choc pod wieloma wzgledami rowniez niedoskonalych postaci posiada zbior pewnych konkretnych umiejetnosci ktorym zawdziecza swoj autentyzm i innowacyjnosc Ksiazka zawiera dziesiatki cwiczen opracowanych na podstawie wynikow badan w zakresie psychologii organizacji i dziedzin pokrewnych ktore moga stac sie zrodlem inspiracji wiedzy i wnioskow dzieki ktorym stworzysz sobie takie zycie jakiego faktycznie chcesz

Poczworne zwyciestwo to wygrana obejmujaca rownoczesnie cztery aspekty zycia prace dom spolecznosc i samego siebie Celem tej ksiazki jest wskazanie czytelnikowi krok po kroku drogi jej osiagniecia Autor w przystepny i ciekawy sposob prezentuje innowacyjny i zrownowazony model przywodztwa oparty na przemyslanym podejsciu do roznych aspektow zycia Stewart D Friedman wykladowca Wharton Business School odwolujac sie do badan nad zwiazkami miedzy zyciem zawodowym a prywatnym wyjasnia jak samodzielnie tworzyc warunki umozliwiajace odniesienie sukcesu w tych istotnych obszarach Szczegolowo omawia trzy zasady jakimi nalezy sie kierowac autentycznosci spojnosci i kreatywnosci oraz uczy jak komunikowac sie z waznymi osobami aby realizowac cele poprzez dobre relacje Ksiazka zawiera wiele praktycznych narzedzi do samodzielnego zastosowania oraz inspirujace przyklady autentycznych historii Stanowia one konkretne wskazowki pozwalajace zrownowazyc wszystkie zyciowe zadania oraz osiagnac pelen sukces w roli lidera