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Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
The career pundits keep driving home the fact that hard work brings its own rewards. One of the unspoken tenets for achieving success, say the movers and shakers of the world, is that you’ve got to give 150 percent. The folks who make it big aren’t clock-watchers. Rather than having a 9-to-5 mentality, they work 10- to 12-hour days and put in Saturdays--even Sundays--when they have to. It’s as basic as this: If you want to get ahead and move up the organizational ladder, you have to be a slave to your career.
That’s certainly been supported by the success stories of hundreds of self-made men and women who came from humble roots and rose up to build entrepreneurial empires or create life-enhancing technology that made the world a better place.
But the seldom discussed flip side is that while hard work and long hours can certainly pay off, after working past a certain point, the quality of your work greatly diminishes, taking a heavy mental/emotional and physical toll. In plain English, it can diminish the quality of your life. There is real truth to the ancient proverb “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
On its simplest level, it means that without a break from work, a person becomes bored and boring because he has no outside interests. But companies have never heeded that tired saying. Most of the …
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