The key to overcoming resistance to change is to frame your actions and continually adjust them as you move forward to so… — Stewart D. Friedman Action Copy Share Image
Michelle Obama is a powerful example of someone who has learned how to align her actions with her values, manage boundaries across… — Stewart D. Friedman Action Copy Share Image
Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the… — Stewart D. Friedman Body Copy Share Image
Continual improvisation on a theme is a more useful way to think of how to bring the various parts of life together. — Stewart D. Friedman Improvisation Copy Share Image
My research and practice indicates that people need to be doing work they love and to love the work they do. They… — Stewart D. Friedman Care Copy Share Image
Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent. — Stewart D. Friedman Competition Copy Share Image
People struggle most with seeing new ways of doing things and often need help in breaking through their tradition-bound mindsets. — Stewart D. Friedman Bounds Copy Share Image
People of all ages, but especially young people, require work that as meaning, or social value. Since they're not getting the kind… — Stewart D. Friedman Age Copy Share Image
Executives are afraid of losing control if subordinates try to roam too far. Conversely, hierarchy squelches talent by forcing rote standardization through… — Stewart D. Friedman Experimentation Copy Share Image
Women make up half our workforce and this has an impact at home on spouses and children. This means the workplace must… — Stewart D. Friedman Caregivers Copy Share Image
Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that… — Stewart D. Friedman Balance Copy Share Image
Invest in helping people know what matters to them and who matters to them (and why), and encourage them to continually experiment… — Stewart D. Friedman Done Copy Share Image
I find that many people have a hard time, at first, in painting a compelling image of an achievable future; to envision… — Stewart D. Friedman Commit Copy Share Image
Managing the boundaries between work and the rest of our lives - family, community, and the private self - is now a… — Stewart D. Friedman Boundaries Copy Share Image
If you're searching for "work/life balance" you'll always be disappointed because "balance" connotes a zero-sum equation. — Stewart D. Friedman Balance Copy Share Image
You really can choose to be the leader you want to be, in all parts of your life, if you take seriously… — Stewart D. Friedman Effort Copy Share Image
Business schools must make the issues of leadership, teamwork, and culture a clearly visible priority if we are to maintain legitimacy and… — Stewart D. Friedman Business Copy Share Image
The only failure is the failure to learn from conscious and deliberate efforts to make things better, even if those attempts fall… — Stewart D. Friedman Conscious Copy Share Image
The principles that apply to engagement for employees are the same as those that apply to supervisors. — Stewart D. Friedman Employee Copy Share Image
The more attention we can devote to helping developing leaders tune in to their core values - drawing on their real experience… — Stewart D. Friedman Aspiration Copy Share Image
When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally… — Stewart D. Friedman Benefits Copy Share Image
The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now. — Stewart D. Friedman Envisioning Copy Share Image
The worst thing you can do, despite the innumerable obstacles we confront, is to not try. — Stewart D. Friedman Adversity Copy Share Image
