Having It All ... And Making It Work: Six

Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability to help your customers stop! Having it All ... and Making it Workis a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering readers a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them. This book isn't just more whining and exhortation: it delivers specific, bite-sized, no-fluff solutions for managing one's life, including crucial execution steps readers can take immediately. Mills teaches readers how to identify and balance what's most important to them--and give up what they don't want badly enough. Mills shows how to make the balance real, not just talk; how to make career decisions that promote balance; and how to make course corrections that refine the reader's balance over time. Mills also exposes the potentially disastrous myths and rationalizations many people use to avoid the realities of work/life imbalance--fallacies like "I'll devote all my time to work for 15 years, get rich, and then I'll pay attention to family." Mills' breakthrough work/life courses at the Harvard Business School are helping business people find the balance they're searching for. The techniques he's developed will help anyone struggling to get a grasp on the work/life balance.

D. Quinn Mills is Alfred J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Introduction: by Read this Book

xiii

Who Are We?

xv

Acknowledgments

xxi

Step 1 Commit to Wanting Both a Career and Family: Rethinking Your Priorities

1

(12)

The Leadership Challenge

7

(2)

Our Definition of Balance

9

(3)

Critical Success Factors in Rethinking Your Priorities

12

(1)

Step 2 Pursue a Process that Creates Balance. Balancing What Is Most Important to You

13

(14)

Establish Boundaries Early On

18

(1)

Know Your Priorities

19

(4)

An Exercise in Perspective

23

(1)

Define Success on Your Own Terms

24

(1)

Critical Success Factors in Balancing What Is Most Important to You

25

(2)

Step 3 Make Choices and Accept the Consequences: Giving Up What You Don't Want Badly Enough

27

Just Let It Go

28

(3)

Know Your Limits

31

(2)

Minimize Tradeoffs

33

(2)

Blind Tradeoffs

35

(8)

Say No

43

(1)

Don't Feel Guilty

44

(3)

Critical Success Factors in Giving Up What You Don't Want Badly Enough

47

Step 4 Choose a Career that Supports Balance: Making Your Balance Real

9

(64)

Choose Your Career Path Wisely

51

(2)

Three Fundamental Options

53

(15)

Four Key Career Levers

68

(3)

Critical Success Factors in Making Your Balance Real

71

(2)

Step 5 Involve Your Loved Ones in Creating Balance: Refining Your Balance

73

(14)

Four Strategies

74

(10)

Divide and Conquer?

84

(1)

Critical Success Factors in Refining Your Balance

85

(2)

Step 6 Review Your Balance to Retain or Regain It: Balance Is a Destination

87

(18)

This Journey Leads to a Destination

88

(1)

What Knocks Us Off Balance

88

(2)

Review Your Balance

90

(3)

Learn to Be Flexible

93

(10)

Your Back-to-Balance Plan

103

(2)

Six Steps to Career! Family Balance

105

Step 1. Commit to Wanting Both a Career and Family: Rethinking Your Priorities

105

(2)

Step 2. Pursue a Process that Creates Balance: Balancing What Is Most Important to You

107

(1)

Step 3. Make Choices and Accept the Consequences: Giving Up What You Don't Want Badly Enough

108

(2)

Step 4. Choose a Career that Supports Balance: Making Your Balance Real

110

(2)

Step 5. Involve Your Loved Ones in Creating Balance: Refining Your Balance

112

(1)

Step 6. Review Your Balance to Retain or Regain It: Balance Is a Destination

113

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Having It All ... And Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First

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