HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance
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HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

HBR Guide to Work-Life Balance

About this book

A curated collection of HBR experts' tips, tricks, and strategies for juggling all of your most important personal and professional commitments.

  • Compiles the best advice from our Harvard Business Review community of experts to help readers achieve a greater balance among the many facets of their selves (work, home, play).
  • Provides a variety of tactics for readers to sample to manage the competing demands for their time and attention across all sectors of their full lives and for setting boundaries in our always-on work culture.
  • Addresses prioritization with a wide view of work and external interests and commitments. Picture a salesperson who's on the road but wants to stay healthy--how can they work out and eat well when the quality and availability of hotel gyms vary and their diet is at the mercy of client dinners and airport kiosks? Or a team leader who's planning to stay late with her team to finish a time-sensitive product but whose child comes down with a stomach bug and her spouse is away on business.
  • Helps readers make choices, plan ahead, and make backup plans for those times when life and work are matched head-to-head and it feels as though you're letting every sector down.

Audience: Anyone struggling to find time for work, family, community, and personal commitments, such as working parents, people caring for elderly or sick family members while working full-time, people who have demanding jobs but also sit on nonprofit boards, people who work long days but also participate in community arts or sports programs.

Announced first printing: 20,000
Laydown goal: 6,000

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Index

anxiety, 213, 223. See also self-care
apologizing, 179. See also relationships
aspirations, 44–46. See also priorities
authenticity
identities and, 60
self-care and, 186
Total Leadership and, 8, 14
autonomy, 67, 70. See also decision-making
avocational domain, 44. See also domains
Baldoni, John, 237–238
Bayer Healthcare, 108–109
bedtime, 232–233. See also self-care
belonging, the need for, 149. See also friendships
bereavement leave, 142. See also flexible work arrangements
blue light, 234. See also sleep
boundaries
days off and, 95–99. See also time management
experimenting with, 22–23
flexible working arrangements and, 134–135
managing around identities, 59–60
parenting and, 173
part-time work and, 113–114
personal crises and, 139
rituals and, 123–124
setting, 73–82
time budgets and, 74–76
untouchable days and, 89–94
between work and play, 173
brainstorming
possibilities in Total Leadership exercise, 9
for two-career couples, 156–160
breaks, 204, 212. See also self-care
Bregman, Peter, 83–88
“The Broken Compass,” 172. See also parenting
budgeting time. See time management
caffeine and sleep, 232. See also sleep
career development, 44
experiment design for, 21
flexible work arrangements and, 126–128
friendships and, 147–152
personal crises and, 137–143
questions to ask about, 63–71. See also time management
for two-career couples, 153–160. See also relationships
Caza, Brianna, 53–62
champions, flexible work arrangements and, 113, 124–126. See also flexible work arrangements
coffee and sleep, 232. See also sleep
cognitive health and exercise, 215–220. See also self-care
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Harvard Business Review Guides
  3. Title Page
  4. HBR Press Quantity Sales Discounts
  5. Copyright
  6. What You’ll Learn
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. Section One: Take Stock
  10. Section Two: Make Decisions and Manage Your Time
  11. Section Three: Explore Flexible Work Arrangements
  12. Section Four: Manage Your Relationships
  13. Section Five: Take Care of Yourself
  14. Index