Business Dad: How Good Businessmen Can Make Great Fathers (and Vice Versa)

By Tom Hirschfeld and Julie Hirschfeld

Book Overview

A prosperous venture capitalist asserts that the skills required for success in the office apply equally to effective parenting.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316219509
• ISBN13: 9780316219501
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Packed With Knowledge!

Many powerful and effective businessmen feel lost when they get home. As a result, some professional men spend more time at the office, where they feel confident and capable. To remedy this dilemma, Ted Hirschfeld presents the one class that they forgot to include in your MBA program: Fatherhood 101. Presented as an executive briefing for a huge new assignment, Hirschfeld's book tells you how to harness the skills that make you successful in business to make you successful as a father. It's a long-overdue concept, even if the book doesn't explain how to fit in more time with the kids at a point when business is demanding more and more of all of us. We [...] strongly recommend this book to any businessman who is also a father, or father-to-be.

A handy guide to parenting

Many powerful, effective businessmen feel lost when it comes to raising their kids. As a result, some spend more time at the office, where they are confident and capable. To remedy this dilemma, Tom and Julie Hirschfeld, a husband-and-wife team, offer a class you won't find in an M.B.A. program: Fatherhood 101. Presented as an executive briefing for a new assignment, Hirschfeld's book teaches you to apply your business know-how to achieve parenting success. The concept is long overdue, though the book skims over the crucial topic of maintaining life-work balance and is prone to gender stereotypes. getAbstract recommends this handy guide to working fathers and fathers-to-be.