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How do we define a balanced lifestyle?
Maintaining a balanced lifestyle means more than being in the office on Fridays and not working every weekend. It is a promise to our consultants and their families that we will do everything we can to protect the sanctity of their personal life and strongly encourage them to maintain priorities that reflect a well-balanced person, not just a well-balanced employee.
How do we support it?
Of all our values, this is the hardest to support formally because it is dependent on both our commitment to provide the best to our clients and our consultants' commitment to their own personal lives. At times, the consultant's worst enemy and harshest critic is himself or herself. In those cases, our leaders take an active role in helping consultants address that imbalance.
Our leadership does this in three different ways. First, we weigh heavily an individual's ability to control his or her work appetite in their evaluation process. Sometimes, an associate might be given the number one development goal to set better priorities and learn how to work smarter rather than more.
Second, leadership signals its high regard for spouses and family by involving them in many social and professional activities. The office sponsors a group with an annual budget to plan social events that help our spouses and significant others build their own support network.
Finally, the partners set the boundaries of what they consider to be an acceptable and sustainable lifestyle by the way they run their own lives. Several of our office partners make it a policy not to work on the weekends and many manage to be home the majority of weeknights to tuck their kids into bed.
The active involvement of spouses and significant others in recruiting events for McKinsey and the "ghost-town" feel of any office on a Saturday morning are good indicators that our commitment to lifestyle is being embraced by our people.
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