Stewart D. Friedman
| Stewart D. Friedman | |
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| Born | Washington, D.C. |
| Occupation | Author, Ivy League professor, consultant, work-life-expert |
Stewart D. Friedman is the founding director of the Wharton School's Leadership Program[1] and Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project. He has been on the Wharton faculty since 1984, and became the Management Department's first Practice Professor in recognition of his work within the fields of Leadership Development, Human Resources and Work-life balance on the application theory and research on the real challenges facing organizations. In 2001, Friedman completed a two-year assignment as the director of the Leadership Development Center at Ford, where he ran a 50-person, 25 MM operation.[2]
Friedman has published numerous books and articles on work/life integration, leadership, and the dynamics of change.[3] Work and Family – Allies or Enemies? (co-authored with Jeff Greenhaus, Oxford University Press, 2000) was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as one of the field's best books. His most recent book, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life, was published in June 2008 by Harvard Business School Press. The book has been on the USA Today bestseller booklist and won several other book awards. Leadership Succession, edited by Friedman, has just been reissued in paperback after 25 years Transaction Publishers, April 2011.
Friedman has consulted a wide range of organizations, executives and distinguished individuals, including Jack Welch and former Vice President Al Gore. He serves on numerous advisory boards, and conducts workshops globally on leadership and "the whole person", creating change, and strategic human resources issues. The recipient of numerous teaching awards, he appears regularly in business media, and was chosen by Working Mother as one of "America's 25 most influential men for having improved conditions for working parents".[4]
Friedman holds a B.A. in Psychology from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton, and an M.A. in Psychology and Ph. D in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.
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[edit] Total Leadership
In Friedman's newest book, Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life, Friedman argues that leadership in business cannot be merely about business anymore: it has to be about life as a whole. Total Leadership is an approach to Human Resource Management and leadership development created and tested at Ford and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania that suggests that leadership must be embodied at all levels of an organizational culture to create sustainable change that’s beyond work-life balance that is good for work, family, community, and self (mind, body, and spirit).
This approach, Friedman writes, is superior at integrating work and the rest of life, preferable to the pursuit of “balance,” which erroneously assumes the necessity of tradeoffs. With “four-way wins,” all parties benefit. From this perspective, individuals realize that their actions as leaders serve a larger purpose, making the world better. They feel part of something bigger than their own lives, and thereby find greater meaning in what they do. The approach has been used in non-profits as well as major for-profit corporations in the United States, Europe, Central America, South America, and Canada to increase organizational and individual productivity by decreasing stress, turnover and absenteeism by capitalizing on one's personal life interests and priorities.
Friedman presents Total Leadership as a proven method to achieving four-way wins; it is based upon following these principles using stakeholder interviews for 360 degree feedback:
1. Be real: act with authenticity by clarifying what’s important
2. Be whole: act with integrity by respecting the whole person
3. Be innovative: act with creativity by continually experimenting
[edit] Honors and awards
- Outstanding Teaching Award in 1990 (University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Division)
- One of Working Mother's 25 most influential men for having improved conditions better for working parents
- Outstanding Teaching Award in 1993 (University of Pennsylvania Undergraduate Evening School)
- MBA Core Curriculum Teaching Award in 1996 (University of Pennsylvania)
- William Whitney Teaching Award in 2007
- Winner of the CEO Read Best Business Book Award 2008 - Personal Development [1]
- Excellence in Teaching Award: Core Curriculum, 2011 (University of Pennsylvania)
[edit] Bibliography
- Leadership Succession, published by Transaction Publishers in 2011 (ISBN-10: 1412842360).
- Total leadership: Be a better leader, have a richer life, published by Harvard Business School Press in 2008 (ISBN 1-42210-328-5).
- Work and family—allies or enemies?, published by the Oxford University Press in 2000 (ISBN 0-19511-275-X).
- Integrating work and life: The Wharton resource guide published in 1998 (ISBN 0-78794-022-4).
- Friedman, S. D. and Lobel, S., 2003. The Happy Workaholic: a role model for employees. Academy of Management Executive, 17 (3): 87-98.[5]
- Friedman, S. D., Christensen, P. and DeGroot, J., 1998. Work and life: the end of the zero-sum game. Harvard Business Review, Nov-Dec, 119-129. Reprinted as lead article in Harvard Business Review on work and life balance. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000. Also reprinted in Leading through adversity (HBR OnPoint Collection), 2002.[6]
- Robertson, T., 2005. Between work and life there’s balance. Boston Globe, June 19.[7]
- Hammonds, K. H., 2000. Grassroots leadership: Ford Motor Company. Fast Company, April.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Saint Stew of Wharton PDF
- ^ a b Grassroots Leadership - Ford Motor Co. | Fast Company
- ^ Amazon.com: Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide: Stewart D. Friedman,Jessica DeGroot,Perry Christensen: Books
- ^ Work-Family Expert on Balancing - On Balance
- ^ The Happy Workaholic: A role model for employers
- ^ Work and Life: The End of the Zero-Sum Game
- ^ Between work and life there's balance - The Boston Globe
[edit] External links
- Total Leadership Web site
- Total Leadership YouTube channel
- Stewart Friedman's Wharton Profile
- New York Times features Friedman
- Flex-Time Goes to the White House, ABC News, April 2010
- Boost Resilience, Decrease Stress and Improve your Performance at Harvard Business ideacast
- The Thinkers definitive listing of the world's top 50 business thinkers
- Living with a Blackberry Addict in Inc.com
- A Life in Harmony in Chief Executive Officer
- Tipping the Scales in HR Management
- Preparing the Leaders of Tomorrow in the Jewish Exponent
- An Sloan Work and Family interview with Friedman
- Tim Ferris interview with Friedman
- Washington Post interview with Friedman
- Bright Horizons Advisory Board
- Olympic University Advisory Board
