★In the pressure of modern society, balancing work and life is as difficult as walking on a tightrope. But the author tells us that work and life are not two irreconcilable poles.
★Based on research and examples, it analyzes from multiple dimensions including individuals, families, organizations, and society, and offers systematic suggestions.
★This book is not a quick fix guide for the short term, but a guide for in-depth thinking and long-term planning, helping readers find a balance that suits them under social pressure.

Achieving a good work-life balance can help us express better performance levels, improve our health, and cultivate hobbies and passions that are critical to our well-being. Over the years, work-life balance has been managed by acknowledging an underlying trade-off: in order to achieve positions of excellence in one’s job or set up a healthy family, one has to choose between one’s career or one’s private life. Today, there is a differ-ent prevailing attitude: we desire, whatever the cost, to pursue both goals. Based on research and studies con-ducted over the past four decades, this book identifies roles and strategies that can be adopted by the four leading players in the reconciliation process: individu-als, businesses, bosses and the society in which we live. Taking into account managerial concerns, the author provides entertaining examples and valuable pointers for attaining an excellent work-life balance, eliminating the guilt we experience when we take time off from work and promoting conditions that enable the great-est number of people to strike a new balance.

Marcello Russo teaches Business Organization at the University of Bologna and heads the Global Master’s in Business Administration programme at the Bologna Business School.