Why is describing the ideal lifestyle in terms of “work/life balance” problematic?

 
 
 
 
 
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What are the four domains of life as described in our course?

By implementing creative strategies to pursue harmony between work and the rest of life, Sandberg demonstrates the skill of:

By persistently rejecting traditional ideas and solutions and the traditional model of trade-offs implied by the “learn-earn-serve” model of personal development, Tierney demonstrates the skill of:

Why were Tom Tierney, Sheryl Sandberg, Eric Greitens, Michelle Obama, Julie Foudy, and Bruce Springsteen selected as the six exemplars for this course?

What are four-way wins?

By finding ways to move ever closer to achieving simultaneous four-way wins—actions that benefit work, home, community, and self, all at once—such as volunteering for the United Way early in his…

By growing the Women of Silicon Valley gatherings into a community of friends, tech executives, venture capitalists, other mothers, book club friends, former colleagues, and family members, Sandberg…

By challenging sexist institutional arrangements and investing time and energy to battle the forces that would repeal Title IX regulations designed to create parity for women’s sports, Julie Foudy…

In the aftermath of 9/11, Springsteen struggled to come to terms with what had occurred. He produced songs to express the grief and hope he found in himself, his family, and his community. Not only…

Listing the names of the three to five people who matter most to you in each domain of your life, describing one thing that you can do to provide some kind of help for some or all of these people or…

Creating visual images of the connections among different strands of an idea in ways that allow you to look at a large amount of information about a subject on one page in a holistic way in order to…

Identifying three or four significant events in your life that taught you something about yourself or shaped the person you are, identifying the tension in each experience and how you dealt with it…

Selecting a one-hour time slot in which you will not use any technology—no internet, no smartphone, no electronic connectivity—and then considering how both you and others were affected by this…

When Obama stated in an interview, “What I do in my life defines me. A career is one of the many things I do in my life. I am a mother first,” and then followed this up by making public choices in…

What can you do to best position yourself to improve your capacity to lead and create opportunities for four-way wins?