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From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series delivers the fundamental information today's professionals need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world.

With articles ranging from an in-depth look at the "mommy-track" to perspectives on telecommuting, this book will help HR professionals and employees at all levels understand the oftentimes delicate balance between our professional and personal lives.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #70698 in Books
• Published on: 2000-07-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

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Customer Reviews

Another Excellent Book in the HBR Paperback Series
Although a number of the articles in this book date back to the early 1980's they are no less relevant today as they were when first published - and in some ways perhaps more so.

The first article - "Work and Life: The End of the Zero-Sum Game" by Friedman, Christensen and De Groot (1996) makes compelling arguments for businesses and managers to recognise that a productive and happy worker is one that is *encouraged* to have their home and work lives in balance, to the mutual benefit of all parties. However, the authors point out that where managers promote this balance for their staff, it is often done "under the radar" of the senior echelons of the organisation. The article makes a compelling case for home/work balances to finally come out from under this radar. A very stimulating piece of writing.

Bartolome and Evans come next with their 1980 article that poses the question "Must Success Cost So Much?". This article looks at the types of emotional spillover that managers often carry into their private lives, and recognises that the job and the manager must "fit" if the spillover is not to have destructive consequences both personally and professionally.

Harry Levinson's 1981 writing on Burn-out comes next and I found this article to be personally VERY enlightening. Levinson updates the article with an addendum penned in 1996 in which he feels his 1981 prescription for avoiding and treating burn-out is now a bit dated, but nonetheless his diagnosis and analysis of the symptoms is still very pertinent today.

And so the vein of this book continues through another 5 articles that look at the "work alibi" (why managers often use work to deflect from difficulties in managing their private lives); the facts of life for Women Managers; what men want from work; the alternative workplace; and, finally, how a dream second career can be pursued.

This book is very highly recommended for any manager looking for insights into their own work and life balance.