Lead With Balance: How To Master Work-Life Balance in an Imbalanced Culture

Donnie Hutchinson gives great insight into work-life balance, and identifies key practices needed to establish the latter. He gives great examples of people in his own life who have struggled with work-life balance, which makes readers realize how aspects of balance might be lacking in their own lives. In our mainstream culture today, it is understandably easy to lose oneself in the technology and fast-paced environment of work. "Lead with Balance" brings to light how being balanced is more beneficial for the work and home life, even more so than focusing on one side of the spectrum. It's a great read - highly recommend!!! 5/5 stars.

As a leader of a small business, this book is particularly poignant. If you are looking for ways to connect with your team members/employees and take your business to the next level, this is the book for you!! Donnie Hutchinson lays the framework for you to personally impact your own life and your immediate family as well as professionally impact your team. He then has boxes to answer direct questions and checklists to evaluate and help you along the journey of work-life balance. Personally, I'd like to think I have done a pretty good job at balancing work and life, but thank you for the extra tips and tricks you have enlightened me to and especially thank you,Donnie, for opening my eyes about taking this to my team. I am so looking forward to implementing work-life balance at the office!! I know it's going to catapult us into the stratosphere!!

Powerful message! Everyone should read on this book unless you think you are truly happy. This book is thought-provoking, and Professor Hutchinson knows a great deal of knowledge on how to balance your imbalanced life. Read the book, you will find the key to true happiness. As a founder and CEO of a small business, I found the most productive way to keep employees loyal and effective is making them feel joyful about what they are doing. This book expressed about how to maximize the workforce’s well-being, happiness, and productivity through a balanced life. I can feel the transformations instantly after I implemented the idea of work-life balance to my team. Great appreciation for Professor Hutchinson!

This book provides wonderful insight into both the theory and practical application for better balance in our lives. Furthermore, the exercises and prompts at the end of the chapters made it easy to take the author's stories and suggestions and apply it to what is most important to the reader. Thank you for bringing an important subject to light in a way that makes it easy to start down a path to balance. I recommend this book highly to anyone who is struggling to manage several aspects of their lives as so many of us do today.

If you have confusion about what matters the most to you in life, if you have problems with balancing your professional work and personal life, this is the book you MUST read. This book helped me to clearly figure out what matters to me in life and taught me how to balance work and life. This book will change your life.

This is a good basic book. Donnie shares good info, validates we as babyboomer can learn from the Millennials we raised. Change is needed in the workplace. The only downside to this book is it seems to market Donnie's consulting more than necessary. Getting the word out on balance is needed. Thank you Donnie for getting the word out. People are slowly beginning to believe balance spawns productivity.

With the aggressiveness of my life and many demanding priorities, it is often challenging (at best) to maintain balance (working full-time, being a MBA student, church activities, family, and "me" time); but, this book is right on point...emphasizing the importance of balance in everyday life, expounding on key and thought-provoking self-examination, as well as plans of action (to achieve balance). This book is thorough, well written, and a definite must read for leaders; and, quite frankly, for anyone desiring balance in their life...indeed, a balanced life maximizes well-being, happiness, productivity, and success!- India Huger

As a business professional by day and MBA student at night, I find very little time for myself.After experiencing much unhappiness in my life recently, I see this is due to an imbalance in my life.Donnie brought so much clarity to me through this book and encouraged me to make the change to get balanced..He provided numerous 'real world' examples of how people find themselves in this predicament far too often.It was comforting to know that yes, I am not alone and yes, others have been successful at making this lifestyle change.Very Very impressed by this Donnie, so much knowledge in a book. I rarely find books that aren't novels to be a page turner, but this book challenged my belief on that.Patiently awaiting the next book Donnie writes!-Rachelle