Image: Instachaaz I came across a ground breaking research piece from Harvard Business Review (HBR) which really hit home for me and evoked a lot of introspection around ‘werk, werk, werk, wellbeing and life’ titled ‘If you are so successful, then why are you working 70 hours a week? Soundbite was its due to ‘insecurity’. Analogous to the problems we solve in investment consulting, there are new and profoundly complex leadership challenges that professional firms (e.g. accounting firms, law firms, consulting firms) and other white-collar jobs are facing. We hear like this over and over again from people in noted white-collar jobs - that chronic overwork is bad for our mental and physical health and can seriously jeopardize the quality of our work (operational/business risk). We wish we could change the way we work, but we don’t really know how?? The new research on professional organizations, shows that our tendency to overwork and bu...
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