Four-way Win: How to Integrate Work, Home, Community and Self

While people in the business community hear a lot about the importance of work/life balance, it's often unclear exactly what that phrase means or how one achieves it. Stewart Friedman, founding director of Wharton's Leadership Program and the Work/Life Integration Project, thinks he has an answer. In his new book, titled Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life, Friedman describes the four domains of people's lives -- work, home, community and self -- and what individuals can do to integrate these domains and improve their leadership skills at any stage in their careers. He talked with Knowledge@Wharton about the ideas and research that went into this book. An edited version of the conversation follows.

Knowledge@Wharton: To start out, can you give us a brief description of the theme of Total Leadership?

Friedman: The basic idea is that you can integrate the different parts of your life in ways that you probably didn't think about before you went through the steps that I take you through in this book, which is my Wharton course brought to life in the form of a book.

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