Having It All... and Making It Work: Six Steps for Putting Both Your Career and Your Family First

Table of contents

1. Copyright
   1. Dedication
2. Praise for Having It All ... and Making It Work:
3. Introduction: Why Read this Book
   1. Who Are We?
      1. Quinn Mills
      2. Sasha Mattu
      3. Kirstin Hornby
4. Acknowledgments
5. 1. Commit to Wanting Both a Career and Family: Rethinking Your Priorities
   1. The Leadership Challenge
   2. Our Definition of Balance
   3. Critical Success Factors in Rethinking Your Priorities
6. 2. Pursue a Process that Creates Balance: Balancing What Is Most Important to You
   1. Establish Boundaries Early On
   2. Know Your Priorities
   3. An Exercise in Perspective
   4. Define Success on Your Own Terms
   5. Critical Success Factors in Balancing What Is Most Important to You
7. 3. Make Choices and Accept the Consequences: Giving Up What You Don’t Want Badly Enough
   1. Just Let It Go
      1. First Tier or Second Tier?
   2. Know Your Limits
      1. Time
      2. Attention Span, Concentration, Focus, and Energy
   3. Minimize Tradeoffs
   4. Blind Tradeoffs
      1. The Risk of Either—Or Thinking
      2. Opposite Illusions
   5. Say No
   6. Don’t Feel Guilty
      1. Why It’s Hard to Say No
   7. Critical Success Factors in Giving Up What You Don’t Want Badly Enough
8. 4. Choose a Career that Supports Balance: Making Your Balance Real
   1. Choose Your Career Path Wisely
      1. Job Match and Balancing Act
   2. Three Fundamental Options
      1. Six Ways to Create Space
      2. Step to the Side
      3. Are You Climbing a Career Ladder or Lattice?
      4. Opt Out
   3. Four Key Career Levers
   4. Critical Success Factors in Making Your Balance Real
9. 5. Involve Your Loved Ones in Creating Balance: Refining Your Balance
   1. Four Strategies
      1. 1. Involve All Our Team Members When Creating Our Balance
      2. 2. Understand Family Concerns
      3. 3. Be Creative in the Way You Spend Time with Your Kids
      4. 4. Make Sure that Both Parents are Striving to be Balanced
   2. Divide and Conquer?
   3. Critical Success Factors in Refining Your Balance
10. 6. Review Your Balance to Retain or Regain It: Balance Is a Destination
    1. This Journey Leads to a Destination
    2. What Knocks Us Off Balance
       1. The Knock-You-Down Things
       2. The Slippery Things
    3. Review Your Balance
    4. Learn to Be Flexible
       1. Flexibility—The Crucial Rule of this Game
       2. Don’t Miss Your Opportunity
    5. Your Back-to-Balance Plan
       1. Critical Success Factors to the Destination of Balance
11. Six Steps to Career/Family Balance
    1. Step 1. Commit to Wanting Both a Career and Family: Rethinking Your Priorities
       1. Critical Success Factors
    2. Step 2. Pursue a Process that Creates Balance: Balancing What Is Most Important to You
       1. Critical Success Factors
    3. Step 3. Make Choices and Accept the Consequences: Giving Up What You Don’t Want Badly Enough
       1. Critical Success Factors
    4. Step 4. Choose a Career that Supports Balance: Making Your Balance Real
       1. Critical Success Factors
    5. Step 5. Involve Your Loved Ones in Creating Balance: Refining Your Balance
       1. Critical Success Factors
    6. Step 6. Review Your Balance to Retain or Regain It: Balance Is a Destination
       1. Critical Success Factors