Skip to Main Content
Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues
book

Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues

by Jake Breeden
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 28m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from Tipping Sacred Cows: Kick the Bad Work Habits that Masquerade as Virtues

Chapter 7

Obsessive Harmonious Passion

I learned firsthand how passion can backfire in my first year of business school. Most students work in big companies, banks, or consulting firms before starting Duke's MBA program. I, on the other hand, had worked at a small liberal arts college in South Carolina. My undergraduate degree was in English, while most of my peers had business, economics, or engineering degrees. But there was one thing we all had in common: we were competing for jobs. I had risked my family's financial health by going into significant debt to fund the MBA. With two young kids, finding a job that paid well enough to pay back my student loans was critical. For me, the job search was important for functional and emotional reasons. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Tame the Primitive Brain: 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work

Tame the Primitive Brain: 28 Ways in 28 Days to Manage the Most Impulsive Behaviors at Work

Mark Bowden
Great Pajama Jobs

Great Pajama Jobs

Kerry E. Hannon

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781118431924Purchase book