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Produktdetails
  • Verlag: Brilliance Audio
  • Gesamtlaufzeit: 480 Min.
  • Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-13: 9781522635055
  • Artikelnr.: 44568650
Autorenporträt
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 Programinitiating the required MBA and Undergraduate leadership coursesand 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. Follow him on Twitter @StewFriedman and tune in to his show, Work and Life , on Sirius XM 111, Business Radio Powered by the Wharton School, Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. (EST).
Rezensionen
Included in Forbes Eight Noteworthy Books of 2014" list.

One of the Best Leadership Books of the Year" Inc.

Friedman sets out tests and suggestions for developing skills for integrating work and the rest of lifethe messageis worth exploring." Financial Times

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

Recommended Reading for Creative Leaders" FORBES.com

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.

"According to this Wharton processor, the 'work/life balance' model is unrealistic. Rather than the two jostling for primacy, he advocates integrating work, home, community and private self." Qantas - The Australia Way

"[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 leadersfrom Sheryl Sandberg to Michelle Obama, and Bruce Springsteen to former Bain & Co. CEO Tom Tierneyand tells their stories, explaining how their choices enable them to thrive in multiple realms of their lives." Dorie Clark, Forbes

Wharton professor Friedman, building on his excellent study, Total Leadership, uses examples ranging from Sheryl Sandberg to Bruce Springsteen to move from familiar calls to balance competing work and life commitments toward taking steps, instead, to integrate our passions and values across the domains of work, home, community, and the private self." David Slocum, Berlin School of Creative Leadership

Leading the Life You Want is an action-oriented book...Whether or not you are a Springsteen fanthe way it's written makes it a good resource that you can turn to time and again for inspiration when you find yourself stuck. Whatever your profession may be, keep a copy of Leading the Life You Want on your office desk or your bedside table." Legends of Springsteen (legendsofspringsteen.com)

Stewart Friedman says the whole work-life balance goal is faulty anyway. He cites Sandberg and Springsteen as great examples of people who have integrated their careers and lives in a way that complements both." Teresa Novellino, Upstart Business Journal

leadership work-life integration is a universal question. It is a universal challenge. Perhaps it is a universal opportunity. That is not just in the realm of business or just in the realm of a certain kind of a person, and I think these stories really bring that to life." Jeffrey Klein, Executive Director of the Wharton Leadership Program

We can integrate our work and our lives. Friedman offers strategies to achieve what he calls four-way wins" in four domains A self-assessment identifies which areas need attention and the book offers practices for each." HR Professional

ADVANCE PRAISE for Leading the Life You Want:

Melinda Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Leading the Life You Want illustrates through compelling biographies the skills you need tolead a life that truly blends meaning and happiness."

Tom Gardner, CEO, The Motley Fool
A much needed surge of inspiration."

Billie Jean King, sports icon and social justice pioneer
Stew Friedman shows how to harness your passions to pursue four-way winsin your work, home, community, and most importantly, for yourself."

Neil Blumenthal, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Warby Parker
Stew Friedman makes the idea of finding harmony between work and life not only possible, but practicable. A brainy yet conversational guide that offers inspired, effective solutions."

Herminia Ibarra, Professor, INSEAD; author, Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
Absolutely wonderful. Read it, and you will be inspired to live and work like never before."

David Allen, author of the international bestseller, Getting Things Done
This is a great manifesto for getting it done. Bravo!"

Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America Foundation
Stew Friedman stands out as one of the few male voices in the field. He understands better than anyone else how leadership, life, and business can fit together."
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