Overview
Anyone who has achieved success in his or her profession"or expects to" deserves to enjoy it in support of, not at the expense of, life priorities. In this book, Alan Weiss— called "one of the most highly respected independent consultants in the country" by the New York Post— offers practical advice on how to lead a balanced life while improving any professional practice immediately. The concluding volume in the popular seven-book The Ultimate Consultant Series, Life Balance provides a wealth of specific approaches and ideas about how to relish success.
Synopsis
A popular aphorism suggests that in the end, no one ever regretted not spending more time in the office. Yet during our lives and careers we often seem to confuse our priorities, shifting our focus so that we end up with clients whom we know extremely well and families who are de facto strangers. In this book, widely renowned consultant Alan Weiss— cited as "a worldwide expert in executive education" in Success Magazine— tells how to blend life, work, and relationships in a way that will help anyone to work smarter and live better.
Weiss draws on scores of interviews and vignettes with highly successful consultants to offer nontheoretical, pragmatic advice on living a balanced life, including how to
- Work smart and not hard
- Have time to fulfill your passions
- Build on success, not on correcting weakness
- Give yourself short- and long-term personal rewards
- Take risks and reinvent yourself (again and again)
- Play to win— but ignore the score and reward the effort
- Influence others while surrendering the need to control
- Visualize the future