Leading the Life You Want: Skills for Integrating Work and Life

Acknowledgments

The six stories in this book have highlighted an eternal truth; without a doubt, no one makes it on their own. I’m very pleased to take this moment to thank those who’ve provided me with that most precious thing, their help, in producing this book.

I am most grateful to the many people who expressed their skepticism about the essential idea in Total Leadership—that work and the rest of life are locked in combat with a guaranteed loser in the end—for they propelled me to write it. I hope that Leading the Life You Want persuades a few of them to think again about the possibilities for four-way wins over the course of a life.

But despite my keen interest in demonstrating that great achievement in the sphere of work is the result ...