Win at Work and Succeed at Life: 5 Principles to Free Yourself from the Cult of Overwork

Michael Hyatt · Megan Hyatt Miller

Apr 2021 · Baker Books

About this ebook

Great leaders are driven to win. Yet career wins can come at great cost to your health, relationships, and personal well-being. Why does it seem impossible to both win at work and succeed at life?

Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller know we can do better because he's seen it in his more than four decades as a successful executive and a loving and present husband and father. Today Michael and his daughter, Megan Hyatt Miller, coach leaders to live the double win. Backed by scholarly research from organizational science and psychology, and illustrated with eye-opening case studies from across the business spectrum and their own coaching clients, Win at Work and Succeed at Life is their manifesto on how you can achieve work-life balance and restore your sanity.

With clarity, humor, and plenty of motivation, Win at Work and Succeed at Life gives you
- an understanding of the historical and cultural forces that have led to overworking
- 5 principles to rethink work and productivity from the ground up
- simple but proven practices that enable you to slow down and reclaim your life
- and more

Refuse the false choice of career versus family. You can achieve the double win in life.

Ratings and reviews

Have you bought into the lie that work-life balance is impossible? In Win at Work & Succeed at Life, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller argue that shortchanging your fitness, family and self-care actually hurt your work performance in the long run. And they lay out a game plan for the “double win” in both personal and work domains. In the authors’ words, “The cult of overwork celebrates achievement, but it’s too shortsighted to applaud the self-care practices that make achievement possible to begin with.” Michael and Megan present a convincing argument that investment in family, hobbies, rest, and more help create a life of personal fulfillment as well as career success. Each chapter ends with a “Double Win Practice” section with practical tips for applying the concepts in the chapter.

About the author

Michael Hyatt is the founder and chairman of Michael Hyatt & Company. He has scaled multiple companies over the years, including a $250M publishing company with 700-plus employees and his own leadership development company that has grown over 60 percent year over year for the past four years. Under his leadership, Michael Hyatt & Company has been featured in the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America for three years in a row. He is also the author of several New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling books, including Platform, Living Forward, Your Best Year Ever, Free to Focus, and The Vision Driven Leader. He's living the Double Win with his wife of forty-plus years, five daughters, and nine grandchildren.

Megan Hyatt Miller is the president and chief executive officer of Michael Hyatt & Company. Cohost of the popular business podcast Lead to Win, she is also Michael's oldest daughter. As the architect of Michael Hyatt & Company's standout culture, she is committed to helping her team win at work and succeed at life, while also delivering phenomenal results to their customers. Under her leadership, Michael Hyatt & Company was named as one of Inc. Magazine's Best Workplaces for 2020, which ranks the top companies in America for their employee engagement. When she's not taking the company to new heights, she's fully present at home with her husband and five kids in Franklin, Tennessee.