Suggested Reading

Work/Life Balance

CrazyBusy – Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap!  Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD
Edward Hallowell, M.D.
Overstretched people find their brains mimic the symptoms of ADHD.  Strategies and tips for how to bring your personal and work life back in balance.

Overloaded Circuits:  Why Smart People Underperform
Edward Hallowell, M.D.
Harried, CrazyBusy executives underperform when their brains go into defense mode.  Strategies for taming biological responses to exploding demands on time and attention in the workplace.
PDF download article originally in Harvard Business Review
   
The Human Moment at Work
Edward Hallowell, M.D.
Businesses ignore the importance of “the human moment” (face to face interactions) in the age of technology at their own risk.  Why it’s strategically important, how to create these moments.
PDF download article originally in Harvard Business Review

Work and Family - Allies or Enemies? What Happens When Business Professionals Confront Life Choices
Stewart D. Friedman, Jeffrey H. Greenhaus
The dilemma of working parents is how to manage their emerging professional responsibilities with their nurturing responsibilities for children. Insights and lessons into how men and women, along with their employers, are dealing with the challenges of integrating parental and professional responsibilities.

From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction: Changing the Metaphor
Diane F. Halpern (Editor), Susan Elaine Murphy (Editor)
This book discusses a broad range of topics that pertain to work and family with the goal of helping employers and working families understand the work-life options that are available.

Harvard Business Review on Work and Life Balance
Harvard Business School Press
Articles ranging from an in-depth look at the "mommy-track" to perspectives on telecommuting, this book will help HR professionals and employees at all levels understand the oftentimes delicate balance between our professional and personal lives, and establish family-friendly work policies.

The Employer's Guide to Child Care: Developing Programs for Working Parents
Barbara Adolf, Karol Rose

Integrating Work and Family: Challenges and Choices for a Changing World
Saroj Parasuraman (Editor), Jeffrey H. Greenhaus (Editor), Jeffrey Greenhaus
The book's twenty-one chapters deal with managerial challenges with views from a variety of perspectives including legal, cultural, and international dimensions; career development initiatives; and future directions. (Choice)

Balancing Acts: Easing the Burdens and Improving the Options for Working Families
Eileen Appelbaum
This collection of essays, from a symposium sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Department of Labor, brings together key experts from the research, labor, and business communities to discuss the latest findings and trends in the area of work and family life.

Working Mothers

Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families
Leslie Morgan Steiner
This collection of 26 essays, written by both stay-at-home and working moms, explores how and why women make their choices between family and career.

The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother?
Miriam Peskowitz
The media, from Dr. Phil to The New York Times Magazine, is adamant that there is no love lost between working parents and those who stay home with their children, each fighting an ideological and economic war based on what they think is best for their children. Yet in reality, parents don't want to fight one another at all; they simply want more options. How does the corporate climate in America force women to claim either a career or a family at any given time? Are the choices women are making-to either adjust careers, "carousel" in and out of the workplace, or quit altogether-really choices at all? And how do we expand the definition of productive worker to include an engaged parent?