As we near the end of this academic year, I'm happy to say it's been a fruitful one. Lots of exciting news here, including -- what alumni of our Total Leadership course have been asking for -- a just-released free online tool you might want to try and share.
I hope you'll take advantage of the resources described in this update, Stew
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Check out www.myfourcircles.com, which we just released last week. You can create a picture of the four domains of your life -- work, home, community, and self -- by sizing them according to their importance and moving them to show whether they are compatible or in conflict, clarify the meaning of this picture, generate ideas for change via experiments, and check with people to ask for help.
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Coursera MOOC -- Better Leader, Richer Life
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If you want to take the Total Leadership course, refresh your skills, or invite your partner, family, or friends to take it, here's a link to sign up now for our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) version. We just started and, as of this writing, there are over 49,000 enrolled in Better Leader, Richer Life. There is a fantastic group of alumni serving as Community Teaching Assistants, commenting on the many different discussion forums with thousands of posts from people aged 13 to 80 and from every continent. It's not too late to join the fun!
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Work and Life on the Radio
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Our  new show airs live weekly on SiriusXM 111, exploring everything related to work and the rest of life: your home and family, your community and society, and your private self (mind, body, and spirit). We've already had some phenomenal guests, including CEOs such as Doug Conant, Brett Hurt (WG'99), and Julie Smolyansky; work/life luminaries such as Stephanie Coontz, Ellen Galinsky, and Anne-Marie Slaughter; authors such as Lisa Belkin and Brigid Schulte; and many more.
Tune in Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 PM EDT to listen and call in to speak with me and my guests. If you missed the shows, you can read excerpts here.
Coming up I'll be joined by CEOs such as Neil Blumenthal (WG'10, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Warby Parker), Nilofer Merchant, and Steven Klasko; researchers extraordinaire Michael Kimmel and Cary Cooper; experts on sleep and on humor; and many more. Call in to 1-844-WHARTON to join the conversation. If you're not a Sirius subscriber, sign-up for a free trial. And you don't need a car radio, you can listen online. If you'd like to be on the show or if you want to recommend someone, please let me know. To read more about it, click here.
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Wharton Work/Life Integration Project
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Stuff on HBR.org |
Reduce Stress by Pursuing Four-Way Wins
Tips on how to create harmony and lower the pressure.
Is Work-Family Conflict Reaching a Tipping Point?
Editor Sarah Green interviewed me in a run- up to our SXSW (South by Southwest) panel,Man Up: Gender and the Work-Life Debate, with Joan Williams and James Allworth. You can listen to the podcast or read the transcript.
From The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013:
"Leaning in will only get us so far. If the workplace is going to work for women -- and for families -- men need to change, and so do our expectations of them. Their tendency toward overconfidence is often mistaken for competence and rewarded with promotions, and their masculine identities require that they work too many hours and get too little sleep, putting extra pressure on women whose greater home- and kid-related responsibilities prevent them from competing on quantity. The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. And the seven policy changes Stew Friedman recommends would benefit all working Americans."
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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."
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Stay Connected and Informed
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