This is a book I tried to read, but couldn’t follow along with tte writing. It started with the structure and then the ideas lost me.

I enjoyed listening to an interview of this author on one of my favorite podcasts. Friedman is one of the earliest business leaders to espouse work/life balance for his employees and himself. This book was good to read but, because I received it on Netgalley, was very difficult to review as an ebook and I could not finish it. There are several diagrams that would be easier to see on hard copy. I would purchase this book as a hard copy rather than an ebook.

I liked this book, but don’t feel that I needed this book. My review is skewed because of that. I read it, I noted my favorite parts, took small activities to do with my wife and then moved on. I wouldn’t read it again unless I needed to pull more information out.

It was good, it can be useful and it would be necessary for families to move forward if they haven’t been doing this already.

Overall for me it was a “meh”.

Thank you for the review copy netgalley.

Many of our leaders serve multiple roles in life. They are not different than most of the people you encounter. For these leaders, the struggle of maintaining good relationships with their organizations as well as their respective family and community members is critically important.

This book by Stew Friedman and Alyssa Westring provides us the practical guidance and insights on how to win at work while maintaining a good experience in our family, community, and ourselves. It’s total leadership.

Tha authors used questions and other forms of exercises on how to see our different roles in proper perspective. They provided useful insights that will help us prioritize things. They also provided great anecdotes of people they help in adopting the principles discussed in this book.

This book is for everyone. We want to be happy fulfilling each areas of our life. We want to feel that we are engaged in our work, family, community, and ourselves. The most important lesson I learned in this book is our life should not always be a zero-sum game. It is possible for us to lead the life we want. This book will help us out.