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April 2013
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Hi!
I'm fortunate to live in a part of the world -- the great city of Philadelphia! -- where the arrival of the spring season brings a palpable sense of renewal. You can feel rebirth everywhere. This edition of our newsletter focuses on how things are changing in the social, cultural, and political dynamics of work and its relation to the rest of life.
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Wharton Work/Life Integration Project:
Two Decades of Change
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In the 1990's, we surveyed Wharton alumni about their work and their lives, and reported our findings in Work and Family -- Allies or Enemies? (Oxford University, 2000). With the completion of data collection on our 20-year follow-up of Wharton alumni, we've revamped the Wharton Work/Life Integration Project Web site with information and videos on our research, teaching, impact on policy and practice, and history. I hope you'll check it out!
You can also find information about some of our preliminary findings here in this HBR blog post, New Research on Working Parenthood: Men are More Egalitarian, Women are More Realistic: "There is greater solidarity among men and women and therefore more flexibility about the roles that both men and women can legitimately take in society. There is now a greater sense of shared responsibility for domestic life. Young men are realizing they have to do more at home than their fathers did, and today's young men want to do so." Continue.
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We Are All Part of the Work/Life Revolution
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Anne-Marie Slaughter and Sheryl Sandberg have touched a nerve, with ramifications for all of us -- women, men and children, too. Check out my post, We Are All Part of the Work/Life Revolution. "As women (and some men) have worked for decades to help women enter and advance in the workforce, as women's presence in the workforce has grown so that a new generation of children have been raised by working parents, and as the changing division of labor at home strains both men and women, we have entered a whole new world. The revolution is here." Continue.
In February the Work Life Integration Project brought Anne-Marie Slaughter to Wharton, where she offered a powerful message of change to an overflow crowd. On our Forum you can view the videos of her talk and my interview with her for Knowledge@Wharton. Join the conversation!
Here's another conversation about our current national interest in work/life integration on Public Radio International's To The Point, Has the Movement for Women's Equality Hit a Wall?
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Creating Sustainable Change -- How People Use TL
Read this post -- Real Leaders Have Real Lives -- for stories about how Total Leadership (TL) is part of a movement to help Target executive men and women integrate their lives.
Here are a couple of recent updates from our alumni about how they're using TL:
Matt Tanzer, W'02, WG '12
Matt, who is the Chief Commercial Officer at RightCare, wrote to tell us about a new venture: "My wife and I just signed up to do a 350 mile charity bike ride in Israel -- Jerusalem to Eilat over seven days. It's got physical fitness and spirituality (Self); I'll be sharing in a great adventure with my wife (Family); we'll be meeting new people and raising money (our fundraising goal is a combined $10K) for a wonderful cause (Community); and my training for it has already given me renewed energy at RightCare (Work). Pretty awesome! What's even better is that we were deciding between this and going to Southeast Asia, which we've never visited and are yearning to see. However, when we thought about it as part of our four circles (my wife is a TL disciple as well), the Asia trip just didn't offer the same kind of fulfillment across all of our domains. I've been trying to instill the TL thinking throughout my life, and today's a pretty good day on that front. TL's been hugely impactful for me."
Becca Kleinstein WG '12
Becca wrote about this career choice: "Heavily influenced by my learning, introspection, and conversations through Total Leadership, I decided to defer my McKinsey offer for a year in order to work for my father's small Ed Tech company. It has been one if the best decisions I've ever made, and has certainly better aligned all of my domains: I get to do meaningful and impactful work for a very small firm, help out my father, work remotely often so I can spend time with my boyfriend (he is in Philly and I am in NYC), and use this time to really focus on what makes me happy instead of getting instantly wrapped up in the high-stress quick-paced lifestyle at McKinsey. So, thank you!"
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Where in the World is Total Leadership?
Here are some of the organizations with which we've had the pleasure of sharing Total Leadership ideas, tools, and research since our last newsletter.
- Bright House Networks
- Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM)
- Select Comfort
- Target Corporation
- UnitedHealth Group
- U.S. State Department
 | | Professor Stew Friedman on Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life |
To learn about Total Leadership, or for a refresher, check out this "master class" for Wharton's LifeLong Learning tour in San Francisco in February.
 | | A former student with Lideranca Total in a Sao Paolo bookstore! |
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Causes We Support
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Total Leadership is devoted to helping those who suffer from mental illness and their familes. We support bringchange2mind.org and NAMI. The National Alliance on Mental Illness "is the country's leading nonprofit dedicated to helping ALL people live mentally healthier lives." Please consider supporting them too.
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Stay Connected and Informed
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Are you sharing Total Leadership with people in your world? I'd love to hear their reactions. And please send ideas for what you'd like to see in this newsletter and on www.totalleadership.org.
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