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You might enjoy this book if you're seeking practical strategies to balance parenting responsibilities while advancing your career. With insights from thought leaders, it provides valuable advice on managing work-life challenges for working parents, empowering you to thrive in both your career and family life.
Move ahead in your career - without leaving your family behind
Move ahead in your career - without leaving your family behind
What happens when you're no longer setting goals and chasing dreams that work for you alone? When the career choices you make have ripple effects on your family? Can you uproot your household for an overseas assignment even if it's a surefire path to promotion? How do you make time for your kids - or yourself - if you work more than one job? These are some of the questions you ask yourself as you struggle to balance managing your career with managing your family.
In Managing Your Career, experts provide answers to the challenges you face as a working parent from negotiating a flexible schedule to overcoming the parenthood penalty whether you're taking time off, treading water, or reentering the workforce.
You'll learn to:
- Assess the impact of downshifting on your career, your home life, and your identity
- Make time for professional development
- Communicate effectively with everyone, from your boss to your toddler
- Boost your impact and visibility, even with an erratic schedule
- Build support systems to get you through rough patches at work and cope with childcare failures
The HBR Working Parents Series supports readers as they anticipate challenges, learn how to advocate for themselves more effectively, juggle their impossible schedules, and find fulfilment at home and at work. From classic issues such as work-life balance and making time for yourself to thorny challenges such as managing an urgent family crisis and the impact of parenting on your career, this series features the practical tips, strategies, and research you need to be - and feel - more effective at home and at work. Whether you're up with a newborn or touring universities with your teen, we've got what you need to make working parenthood work for you.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781633699724
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 22 December 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 215.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 12 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.
Daisy Dowling, Series Editor, is founder and CEO of Workparent, the executive coaching and training firm, and the author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to Yourself, and Raising Happy Kids (Harvard Business Review Press, 2021). She is a full-time working parent to two young children. She can be reached at workparent.com.
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Zero to One by Blake Masters and Peter Thiel is a ground-breaking and thought-provoking examination of innovation and what it takes for a new company to prosper. Written by Peter Thiel, the co-founder of one of the most successful tech start-ups in history, this book provides a fresh perspective on how to build a valuable and unique enterprise in a...By Blake Masters and Peter ThielPaperback$2500Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition by W. Chan Kim and Renรฉe A. Mauborgne is an essential guide for anyone looking to transform their business strategies and leap into untapped market spaces. This acclaimed book illustrates how companies can break free from the traditional war of competition and instead, create their own "blue oceans" of uncontested market space. The authors delve...By W. Chan Kim and Rene A. MauborgneHardback$5700Elsewhere:$6499Unit price /Unavailableโ โ โ โ โ(1)In StockShips tomorrow -
The Toyota Way, Second Edition: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer
Explore the enlightened path to transformational business success with the updated and expanded edition of Jeffrey Liker's acclaimed work, The Toyota Way, Second Edition: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer. Delve into the legendary business philosophy that has placed Toyota at the pinnacle of global manufacturing excellence. In this highly anticipated update, Jeffrey Liker refines and broadens the...Hardback$8500Unit price /Unavailableโ โ โ โ โ(1)AvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
High Output Management
High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove is a legendary business book and a Silicon Valley staple. Written by the former chairman and CEO of Intel, it offers invaluable insights into the art of managing and running a successful company. This practical handbook provides guidance for navigating real-life business scenarios and serves as a powerful manifesto that has the potential...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
How to Grow Your Small Business
The Wall Street Journal Bestseller For so many entrepreneurs, running a small business ended up looking different than they imagined. Theyโre stressed, discouraged, and not confident in their plan for growth. In How to Grow Your Small Business, Donald Miller gives entrepreneurs a 6-step plan to grow their businesses so they produce dependable, predictable results. Using the exact steps youโll...Paperback$2900Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow
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