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HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work (HBR Guide Series)
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HBR Guide to Managing Stress at Work (HBR Guide Series)

by Harvard Business Review
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
3h 7m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Chapter 14

Diversify Yourself

by Peter Bregman

Suicides account for almost one-third of U.S. work-related deaths caused by violence. It’s tempting to blame companies for driving their employees too hard and failing to handle people with care, compassion, and respect. But the problem is deeper and more complicated than callous management teams who care about nothing except profits. The problem is also in how we as professionals see and define ourselves.

Often the first question we ask when we meet someone is, “What do you do?” We have become our work, our professions. Connected 24/7 via mobile devices, obsessively checking e-mail and voice mails, we have left no space for other parts of ourselves.

If we spend all our time working, traveling to ...

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