Saturday, November 22, 2008

Books on Work/Life Balance

cover Life Matters : Creating a Dynamic Balance of Work, Family, Time & Money
by A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca Merrill

The Merrills, time management experts who co-authored First Things First with Stephen Covey (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People), expand their range here to cover creative ways to successfully balance four major aspects of life: family, money, work and time. The premise of their program...

cover You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted! : A Program to Bring Joy, Energy, and Balance to Your Life
by Anne McGee-Cooper

Here's your personal power pack!Plug into this action resource and discover how to recharge your batteries at a moment's notice. This practical, one-of-a-kind program is based on fascinating new research - from brain science to stress reduction - and has been tested extensively by the author's leading corporate clients. Open to any page and you'll find a wealth of creative ideas and strategies that can help turn your life around.

cover Gender on Trial: Sexual Stereotypes and Work/Life Balance in the Legal Workplace
by Holly English

Holly English, a former lawyer, is the founder of the law firm consulting practice Values at Work. She writes a regular column on issues affecting lawyers and their professional development for New York Law Journal and has contributed to New Jersey Law Journal, Legal Times, Texas Lawyer, and...

cover Beating the 24/7 : How Business Leaders Achieve a Successful Work/Life Balance
by Winston Fletcher

In this remarkable book, Winston Fletcher takes as his starting point a set of specially commissioned interviews with 16 of the most accomplished businessmen and women in the UK, including Sir Richard Branson, Michael Grade CBE, Nicola Horlick and Sir Christopher Bland. Each interview is an exploration of success, despite the many sacrifices along the way, and gives hope to everyone that a satisfactory work/life balance can be achieved.

cover Harvard Business Review on Work and Life Balance (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
by Harvard Business School Press

Will help human resource professionals and other employees at all levels understand the delicate balance between professional and personal lives.

cover Work, Play, and Type: Achieving Balance in Your Life
by Judith A. Provost

cover Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance
by Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, Joyce K. Fletcher, Bettye H. Pruitt

Beyond Work-Family Balance, by academic researchers Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, Joyce K. Fletcher, and Bettye H. Pruitt, grew out of a decade-long search for ways to restructure business life that would "enhance organizational effectiveness while making the workplace more equitable and improving...

cover The Home Office Solution : How to Balance Your Professional and Personal Lives While Working at Home
by Alice Bredin

Gives you the tools & techniques you need to thrive as a home office worker. Stresses time management, balancing work & home life, coping with emotional fallout, & maintaining good health. Paper. DLC: Home based businesses.

cover Life Is Not Work, Work Is Not Life: Simple Reminders for Finding Balance in a 24/7 World
by Robert K. Johnston, J. Walker Smith

Our desire for spiritual growth can help us balance the role of work in our lives," write Robert Johnston and J. Walker Smith in Life Is Not Work, Work Is Not Life: Simple Reminders for Finding Balance in a 24/7 World. Americans, they say, have allowed work to become too all-encompassing and must...

cover Design A Life that Works : The Work-Life Balance Guide
by Fast Company Magazine

If you care as deeply about your life at work as your life at home, then you're going to need to make sure that you've put your life together in a way that works. In this package of articles, Fast Company takes a close look at people - from Olympic medal winners to Internet entrepreneurs - who are rebalancing their work and life. We talk to guru Mark Albion, Canyon Ranch's Dan Baker, author Richard Leider, and others who have had to confront the ever-important issue of work-life balance.

cover Fear Without Loathing : Why Life/Work Balance Doesn't Matter, But You Do
by Nicola Phillips

Fear Without Loathing is about understanding what is behind the things you think and feel. It is about understanding and relating to the fears you have that keep you stuck in places you don’t want to be and what needs to happen so you can move on.