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

Working 24x7? Delaying life until it's too late? You have the ability stop!

Having it All ... and Making it Work is a fast-paced, easy-to-use book offering you a new pathway towards managing personal life and professional life--without sacrificing either one of them. This book isn't just more whining and exhortation: it delivers specific, bite-sized, no-fluff solutions for managing your life, including crucial execution steps you can take immediately. Mills teaches you how to identify and balance what's most important to you--and give up what you don't want badly enough. He also shows how to make the balance real, not just talk; how to make career decisions that promote balance; and how to make course corrections that refine your balance over time. Mills also exposes the potentially disastrous myths and rationalizations many people use to avoid the realities of work/life imbalance--fallacies like "I'll devote all my time to work for 15 years, get rich, and then I'll pay attention to family."

Mills' breakthrough work/life courses at the Harvard Business School are helping business people find the balance they're searching for. The techniques he's developed will help anyone struggling to get a grasp on the work/life balance challenge.

D. Quinn Mills is Alfred J. Weatherhead Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has spent the past three years teaching courses dealing with the specific challenges faced by professionals who want to achieve better work/life balance.

A prolific author, his books include eLEADERSHIP: Winning in 21st Century Business and Not Like Our Parents: How the Baby Boom Generation Is Changing America. Mills advises major corporations and consulting firms and has been widely quoted in leading media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and NBC's Today Show. He is a Fellow of The National Academy of Human Resources.

Sasha K. Mattu, who has an honors degree in psychology from Harvard University, has been a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, where she worked on case studies related to competition and strategy for Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Thomson Corporation, and Ice-Fili. Prior to her position as Research Associate, she was an elite tennis player who played WTA Professional Satellite Tours. Working on this book has inspired her to return to her home in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she plans on pursuing the steps outlined in the book to achieve the work/life balance she wants.

Kirstin R. Hornby has been a Research Associate at Harvard Business School and is currently an MBA candidate at Northwestern University. A graduate of Princeton, she has served as marketing consultant for Ben & Jerry's nonprofit partnership and Leader for the Global Initiatives in a management trip to Botswana. She has spent months doing non-profit consulting in west Africa.