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Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Stewart D. Friedman
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 6446
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 1422103285
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092
EAN: 9781422103289
ASIN: 1422103285
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
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Now 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 can:
Be real: Act with authenticity by clarifying what's importantBe whole: Act with integrity by respecting the whole personBe innovative: Act with creativity by experimenting to find new solutions
With engaging examples and clear instruction, Friedman provides more than thirty hands-on tools for using these proven principles to produce stronger business results, find clearer purpose in what you do, feel more connected to the people who matter most, and generate sustainable change.
Most leadership development books focus only on your professional skills, while books about personal growth concentrate on your needs beyond work. Total Leadership is different. It's a unique and long-awaited resource that shows how to win in all domains of life.
In a world of work-life trade-offs, Stew Friedman offers what most think impossible: a field-tested program that gives you not only what you want in business, but also what you want in life. Brilliant.
--Timothy Ferriss, New York Times bestselling author, The 4-Hour Workweek
Destined to be a classic, this is a remarkable book. I have studied leadership and led organizations for over twenty years. No other book has reshaped my thinking about leadership development as much as Total Leadership.
-- David A. Thomas, professor, Harvard Business School, and author, Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Professionals in Corporate America
Stew Friedman absolutely gets it. He is both a visionary and a much-needed advocate for a new kind of total leadership in the twenty-first century. What an empowering book!
-- Janet Hanson, Founder, 85 Broads
Total Leadership will help you build a life, not just a sum. Stew Friedman has written the owners manual for all types of leaders, young and old, who aspire to both professional success and personal fulfillment.
-- Tom Tierney, Chairman and Cofounder, The Bridgespan Group
The best leaders are those who stay connected to their communities, to the people they love, to themselves. In Stew Friedman s Total Leadership, you'll learn simple, powerful new ways to make these connections happen and enjoy the rich rewards that inevitably follow.
-- Keith Ferrazzi, CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight, and author, Never Eat Alone
As the pace of business continues to race forward at lightening speed, Stew Friedman offers us an innovative and sustainable model for successful leadership. Total Leadership provides a unique proposition for individuals who strive to be their very best both personally and professionally.
-- Dave Lissy, CEO, Bright Horizons Family Solutions
Total Leadership is so aligned with my thinking as an HR executive and medical director of a global business. With practical tools and compelling stories, Friedman demonstrates how to achieve four-way wins a distinctive, important new concept for today s leaders.
--Dr. Robert W. Carr, Vice President and Corporate Medical Director, GlaxoSmithKline
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 Common sence but a bit boring November 17, 2008
EMax999
This is a somewhat odd book. I'm not very familiar with field of self-improvement books, and had to read it as a part of a work assignment. I've read through about a third before giving up due to being very bored (thank goodness assignment was not really mandatory).
I suppose this is just one set of many recepies for people that are very unhappy with their life up to the point of being fully paralyzed and now knowing how to start changing things. While idea of "stakeholders" may seem new for some people, it's only logical to ask people that you are involved with about what exactly they expect from you, so you know what expectations you're supposed to live up to. And general advise is "try to change things and see where it leads you".
The best kind of self-help! November 13, 2008
Robert Drago (State College, PA United States)
About 16 hours into the return trip from Japan, I started reading this book, so the circumstances were far from ideal. Even so, I really enjoyed reading the work! This is one of those books that is the culmination of much work, both in the classroom over a period of many years and in Stew's personal life, and the quality of the thinking and writing is simply superb as a result. Basically, this is a self-help book, and I'd recommend it to anyone. However, there is a major caveat: to really use the book requires weeks and, realistically, months of working through the exercises in prioritizing, reflecting, communicating with others, experimenting, and monitoring the results of experiments. Having said that, I can't imagine a better time investment for most of us. This is incredibly insightful, honest, and ultimately caring and humane. Great stuff!
Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life August 14, 2008
Wendy H. (Foster City, CA)
I have read this book as one of my elective courses at Wharton West. Prof. Friedman discussed in his book about how acting with authenticity (being real), integrity (being whole), and creativity (being innovative) affects performance. By acting with authenticity, I feel much more purposeful at work and home. I am more committed and drive persistently in myself and people around me, which help to improve the performance for myself as well as people around me. The leadership skills I have learned from this book:
Align actions with core values by choosing what matters most: I become more result oriented and focus on those important tasks that matter most to my core values.
Cultivate awareness of true leadership priorities in all domains: I have shared the new concept of leadership in this class with my boss, my colleagues, my husband, my son and friends and I do see the action from all domains.
Ethically influence others to generate support in all domains: The efforts I have put in the experiments have generated positive results both at work and home.
I hope this review help you to choose this book and act with urgency to lead a richer life with four ways win at work, family, community and personal level.
What a Fantastic Read! July 10, 2008
Nana Xu (Slidell, LA)
Thank you Stew Friedman! This work is engaging, enlightening, and inspirational--giving us all insight into what it means to be a 'Total Leader.' It answers the fundamental question most people ask about how to integrate all of the various pieces of our lives. I especially enjoy hearing the stories of the Total Leadership participants, and how they've grown and are able to see the world in a different light after going through the program!
I'm definitely sold on this Total Leadership Program! However, it is, not without constant work and reevaluation, as Friedman notes, that we can achieve both a meaningful and professionally successful life. I recommend this book to anyone, especially women and those in transition, as a useful guide about how to structure your life in a meaningful and productive way. It certainly helps me rethink the things that are important to me in my day to day life. :)
Great book - deceiving title July 10, 2008
M. Henderson
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I took two intercontinental flights recently and took the time to go through the "Total Leadership" program. And, before I begin my review, I want to say that over the past ten years or so I've seen an absolute avalanche of "leadership" books come out - most of them gimmicky and useless. This is not one of them and in fact I believe the title may deter people from purchasing this; do not be one of them.
"Total Leadership" is about finding your way when you have multiple responsibilities tugging you in different directions. Until now, I've often felt family pulling me one way, only to find the more time I spend with them the more I resent the time it takes away from work. Similarly, on business trips for example, I fight with feelings of guilt for being away from my family. And that's not to mention the the toll all of this takes on my health, when I'm too busy to exercise or just watch the game with friends. I'm here to say this book can help, like finding the long lost manual and finally figuring our how to do new things with a product, this book acts as a guide to finding a semblance of control in your life. It's not about sacrifice, and it's definitely not found in the idea of "balance", this book advocates a powerful third way: overlapping your domains and drawing boundaries.
What makes this book especially effective are the exercises the author puts the reader through. The reader is asked to define the issue, starting with the multiple responsibilities and challenges s/he faces, then it moves on to defining your domains, where is it that you spend your time? Most of the readers (including myself) would find four areas: self, family, work and community. Then, with domains defined, you can identify stakeholders in each domain and begin the process of finding ways "to live your life in accord with what really matters to you." The reader is asked to discuss his/her vision for a future life (post-change) with trusted individuals s/he has previously identified. A particularly effective step is then speaking with others about living your life differently, such as: your boss, significant other and friends, and getting their opinion and feedback on your plan, and as difficult and challenging as this may be it ends up providing the most powerful incentive to change through accountability and stakeholder buy-in. In many cases, I found that as much as I was building bridges between domains in my life, I was also creating boundaries (for example, no longer do I check my blackberry or the Internet between the hours of 6pm - 9pm.) But some of the biggest changes are personal ones that are for me and my family, other readers will likely find similar decisions they make without necessarily sharing them.
This book is not about easy decisions, or difficult ones, its about drilling down to what's most important in your life and building from there.
Ultimately, this book is required reading once, in my opinion, you are put in a position of responsibility. It is effective in maintaining a mindset conducive to responsible living, it provides a non-cookie cutter approach and it creates change in your life through practical exercises.
For these reasons, this reviewer highly recommends "Total Leadership."
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