Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life

National Bestseller

"Students 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 Times

Now more than ever, your success as a leader isn't just about being a great businessperson. 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. The author shows you how to achieve these four-way wins as a leader who can:
- Be real: Act with authenticity by clarifying what's important
- Be whole: Act with integrity by respecting the whole person
- Be 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.


Author: Stewart D. Friedman
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Published: 05/06/2008
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.43h x 6.35w x 0.98d
ISBN: 9781422103289


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2008 pg. 16
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 101

About the Author
Stewart D. Friedman is the founding director of the Wharton School's Leadership Program and Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. He is the former head of Ford's Leadership Development Center