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CEO of Me: Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age

Ellen Ernst Kossek and Brenda A. Lautsch
Wharton Publishing 2008.

CEO of Me takes a 360 degree look at flexibility and comes up with thoughtful advice for all workers.  The goal is to develop a sustainable work-life “flexstyle” and acknowledges that there are many ways to achieve that goal.  There are three major styles: Integrator, Separator or Volleyer and there are strengths and challenges of each approach.  Readers are forced to look beyond their own habits and assumptions to explore alternatives that might work better.  A key theme is the ongoing reference to a sense of control as an essential component to a worker’s happiness (confirming research in work/life field).  Other conclusions borne out by work-life research is that “captives” – those who are forced to separate work and personal lives are the most conflicted, stressed and unhappy workers.  Find out what your own Flexstyle pattern is.

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Published: 2008
Publisher: Pearson Education Inc. Wharton Publishing
ISBN - 10 00130234999-X and 13 978-0-13-234999-4

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