Stewart D. Friedman

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Stewart D. Friedman
Born Washington D.C.
Occupation Author, Ivy League professor, professional speaker, 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 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 UP, 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, is forthcoming in June 2008 from Harvard Business School Press.

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.

Contents

[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. Leadership must be embodied at all levels of an organization to create sustainable change that’s 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.

Friedman presents Total Leadership as a proven method to achieving four-way wins; it is based upon following these principles:

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

[edit] Bibliography

  • 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.[8]


[edit] References

  1. ^ http://www.management.wharton.upenn.edu/friedman/articles/Saint%20Stew%20of%20Wharton.pdf
  2. ^ Grassroots Leadership - Ford Motor Co. | Fast Company
  3. ^ Amazon.com: Integrating Work and Life: The Wharton Resource Guide: Stewart D. Friedman,Jessica DeGroot,Perry Christensen: Books
  4. ^ Work-Family Expert on Balancing - On Balance
  5. ^ The Happy Workaholic: A role model for employers
  6. ^ Work and Life: The End of the Zero-Sum Game
  7. ^ Between work and life there's balance - The Boston Globe
  8. ^ Grassroots Leadership - Ford Motor Co. | Fast Company


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