March 2026
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Week 7Leading an Integrated Life
Benchmark goal: Find work–life integration.
Are you interested in more from life than your work? I certainly hope so. As much time as we devote to our work, nearly every one of us wants to experience the full breadth that life has to offer. Yet our behaviors often suggest that our work is our life, or at least that it takes priority over everything else.
Regrettably, the role models in our parents' generation are not good. Many of these leaders felt the company was their life. Listen to what Robert Crandall, retired chairman and CEO of American Airlines, said on this subject in Geeks and Geezers:
For all the years that I was working, I was trying to achieve a particular goal. So I wasn't interested in balance. I didn't sail very much. I didn't play any golf. I didn't take much time off. I ran American Airlines and it pretty much took up my whole life. Which suited me fine. Now you hear a lot about balance. In today's world people say, “I have to have a more balanced life. I have to have time for my kids and my job and my hobbies.” That's all well and good. But people who worry about balance have no overriding passion to achieve leadership.
As much as I respect what Crandall accomplished at American, I disagree completely on his views about balance and passion. His voice is that of another era, when men worked and their wives supported them from their homes. If you follow his advice, you may become a very narrow person and a limited leader. ...
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