Getting It All Done

by Harvard Business Review, Eric Michael Summerer (Narrator), Jennifer Jill Araya (Narrator)

Stop juggling; start managing everything you need to do at home and at work.

It used to be simple: Stay late, turn in flawless work, catch up on sleep later. You needed that mind-set to get where you are, but that's not going to cut it anymore. You need to make different choices to succeed at work, as a parent, and as a family member.

Getting It All Done can't teach you how to be in two places at once, but it provides you with expert advice as you manage the challenge of succeeding at work while making sure your family is housed, fed, healthy, safe, and educated.

You'll learn to: set up schedules and routines that work; spend your time and energy on the most valuable activities; set reasonable expectations and limits in the always-on culture; keep exercising your management skills once you've left the office; move on with resilience when you occasionally drop the ball; and embody the work and life values you believe in for your children.

Runtime: 3. 63 hours.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Business, Self Help, Productivity

4 pages, Audio CD

First published December 8, 2020

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

Takeaways

Hold weekly family meetings. What worked well this week? What didn’t work well? What should we work on this week?

Drum tapping before

Empower children instead of issuing orders. Enlist the children in their own upbringing. They will have greater cognitive control. Weight pros and cons. Setting their own consequences. Kids are allowed to say anything.

Overarching rule : you have to commit to working hard on your family. Try.

We act and react in negotiations with kids how we would not at work. You should prepare for negotiations with kids. Time and energy are precious.

Something can be fair but not equal. A 10 year old shouldn’t get the same amount of dessert as a 3 year old.

You’re not supposed to be their best friend. You are teaching them to be good people.

Put away your phone to spend quality time with your kids. They will remember you staring at your phone

Make a list of things in yours and your spouses in column. (Watering plants, taking out garbage, etc)

Whole family has study hall - sit together and do homework / reading / work. Prevents power struggle of telling them to do homework

[Greg Hawod · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is great to see that HBR has come up with this collection of articles and podcast transcripts focusing in one topic. If you are a regular HBR reader and/or you wanted to get the best of HBR on the needs, this book is for you.

The book is part the Working Parent series. Since most in our workpaces are parents or having a role similar to that such as taking care of a love ones, the ideas and suggested solutions in this book will be a great help.

[Arun Narayanaswamy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Parenting and leadership share commonalities beyond what meets the eye. This book gets into details on how to manage parenting and work in an efficient manner. Loved the small stories and examples, and even more solutions and answers to some tough questions. And section on “saying no” was very nice too, much of it was taken from the book ‘drop the ball’
Loved reading this

[Caitlyn Meyers · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love a collection of essays! However, this one felt redundant and cold. While there was a few good time management tips and a couple of inspiring tidbits, it definitely came off as if we should run our family as if it were a business. That works in some regards, but overall is rigid and unfun.

[Shana · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is actually lots of nice advice, especially helpful when kids are small. Target audience is upper middle class dual income dual parent households without financial, medical, behavioral, psychological problems.

[Achim ('akim) Schmidt · Rating 5 out of 5]

All those short articles inside this book gave me quiet distinct but interesting insights and ideas in how to cope with situations related to kids.

[Sammi · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 🌟

[Sheyla · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a reminder that it takes a village to raise good humans. Be social, ask for help and treat your kids with the respect you would treat coworkers were my main take aways.

[Bill Nielsen · Rating 3 out of 5]

You think you can you think you can
And then you do
I believe in you