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Two-Career Families (HBR Working Parents Series)

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In Two-Career Families (HBR Working Parents Series), the authors explore the dynamics of managing a household where both partners pursue careers. The book provides insights into achieving balance and navigating challenges that arise from dual-career ambitions, offering strategies and advice for maintaining harmony between professional and personal life, while fostering fulfilling career paths.
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You might enjoy this book if you're part of a two-career family seeking practical advice and strategies to balance work and family life effectively. It offers insights from experts to help navigate the challenges of pursuing dual careers while managing parenting responsibilities, providing tools to thrive both professionally and personally.

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Two-Career Families (HBR Working Parents Series)

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Build your careers, your family, and your life—together.

When you're part of a two-career family, you manage the competing demands of your careers, child-rearing, and household chores along with your relationship with each other. Can you both chase your dreams, raise good citizens, make time for your hobbies and your health—and maintain a strong relationship?

Two-Career Families provides the expert advice and practical solutions you need to address the challenges you face as working-parent partners, from negotiating responsibilities at home to making career decisions to supporting each other's growth.

You'll learn to:

  • Build and maintain a team mindset
  • Tackle daily demands while tracking long-term goals
  • Make fair trade-offs
  • Deal with crises and setbacks
  • Balance it all—or most of it

The HBR Working Parents Series provides support as you anticipate challenges, learn how to advocate for yourself more effectively, juggle your impossible schedule, and find fulfilment at home and at work. Whether you're up with a newborn or planning the future with your teen, you'll find the practical tips, strategies, and research you need to make working parenthood work for you.

Series: HBR Working Parents Series

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781647822101

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 March 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 209.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 208

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.

You can find HBR at: hbr.org
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