Is Work Taking Over Your Life?
by Gill Corkindale
Most of us are in a perpetual state of overload and stress from new technologies, globalization, demands for innovation, and a shrinking workforce. Additionally, many of us work in a matrix-run organization, meaning we are accountable to more than one boss. In sum, we are told to achieve more, more efficiently, faster, and with fewer people.
In many organizations, this results in giving the most capable people more to do—leading to their stress and burnout—and sacking the less efficient managers. Many executives I coach are doing the work of two full-time executives. Take Andrew, 40, the CFO of a British retailer who was recently promoted to COO. He has been asked to cover both jobs until his ...
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