Total Leadership

Total Leadership Stewart D. Friedman Published by Harvard Business Review Press Pages: 295 Year of Publication: 2014 Price : 795 ISBN No: 8129132605 (Softcover and e-book)

Total Leadership, by Steward Friedman is based on his total leadership course offered to integrate work and life at Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania where Friedman has also been the Practice Professor of Management, and Founding Director of Wharton Leadership Program and Wharton work/life Integration Project. Friedman's writings on leadership and work/life integration include various articles in Harvard Business Review. He has been advising many highpowered and influential organizations like the U.N., and delivering keynote speeches, and workshops. An award-winning teacher, Friedman was also chosen as one of America's twenty five most influential men in having made things easy and workable for working parents. The book, Total Leadership emphasizes on leadership by improving our performance in not only one or two but four important domains of life: work, home, community and self. Balancing these four domains is itself a model of depicting leadership qualities and this is termed as "four-way wins" in the book. All this makes the book much more practical and result-oriented.

In the book Steward talks about evaluating to spend time more effectively in each of the four major domains of life by the process of:

Reflecting -* Identifying the possibilities -* Willingness to take chances and experiment -* Measuring the progress

Emphasizing that every domain of life must go through these 4 steps to create positive and sustainable changes, the author provides a handy set of techniques on how to use this book as a tool to experience & implement total leadership, in the beginning of the book. This makes the books easier to understand and work-upon for the readers. The book majorly advises to:

Be Real - Act with Authenticity

Be Whole - Act with Integrity

Be Innovative - Act with Creativity

The book is broadly divided into 3 parts thematically with a total of eight chapters.

The first part of the book begins with self-analysis and self-discovery to-dos, and identifying the other important aspects of life. This section focuses on working on and measuring of Four-way happiness. In this process the readers start with thinking, writing and...