Stewart Friedman argues that work-life balance should not view "life" and "work" as competing domains. Instead, life encompasses work as well as home, community, and personal fulfillment. He advocates for an integrated approach where accomplishments at work result from, rather than come at the expense of, commitments in all life domains. Friedman outlines three principles for successful work-life integration: being real about your priorities, recognizing how different roles intersect, and innovating creative solutions.

1. SUCCESSFUL LIFE AND WORK
INTEGRATION
BY BRIAN GOZUN
THE MANILA TIMES, OCTOBER 20, 2014

2. STEWART FRIEDMAN
• He states that believing that work competes with life
should not be the case because “life” in work-life
balance should be the “intersection and interaction of
four major domains: work, home, community, and the
private self.”
• In a Harvard Business Review blog, he talks about
what successful work and life integration looks like.
• He uses the phrase ‘work-and-life integration’ rather
than the more common ‘work-life balance’
• He still gets comments that in order to be truly
successful in one’s work, one must have major
sacrifices in personal and family life.
Professor at the
Wharton School

3. • In his book, “Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work
and Life,” he focused on well known people:
Sheryl Sandberg
Facebook COO
Michelle Obama
First Lady of USA
Bruce Springstein
“The Boss”

4. • According to Prof. Friedman, “accomplishment in a career is achievable
not at the expense of the rest of your life, but because of commitments at
home, in the community, and to your interior life.”
• Three principles for work and life integration: be real, be whole and be
innovative.
 Being real means clarifying what’s important to you.
 Being whole means recognizing how various parts of your
life affect one another.
 Being innovative means experimenting with ways on how
you can be creative in doing things that are good for you
and the people around you.

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