Bøger af Stewart D. Friedman

In Baby Bust, Stew Friedman, founding director of The Wharton School's Work/Life Integration Project, draws on unique research to explain why so many young people are not planning to become parents. 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.

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

National BestsellerStudents 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 TimesIn this national bestseller, Stew Friedman gives you the tools you need to achieve four-way winsimproved performance in all domains of life: work, home, community, and self. Friedman, celebrated professor and founding director of the Wharton Schools Leadership Program and its Work/Life Integration Project, explains how three simple yet potent principlesbe real, be whole, and be innovativecan help you, no matter what your age or what you do for work, become a better leader and have a richer life.In this engaging adaptation of his hands-on Wharton course, he offers step-by-step instruction to help you create positive, sustainable change in your world. This proven, programmatic method teaches you how to produce stronger results at work, find clearer purpose, feel less stressed, strengthen connections with the people who matter most to you, contribute further to important causes, and gain greater support for your vision of your future. If youre ready to learn to lead in all parts of your lifethis is the book for you.For a full array of Total Leadership tips and tools, visit totalleadership.org. Also look for Stew Friedmans book, Leading the Life You Want, which builds on Total Leadership by profiling well-known leadersfrom Bruce Springsteen to Michelle Obamawho exemplify its principles and demonstrate how success in your work is accomplished not at the expense of the rest of your life, but as the result of meaningful attachments to all its parts.

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 domains: 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 people:• 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.