Posts Tagged ‘overwork’

How to leave it all behind you at the end of the day

The keys to going home gracefully

It’s a myth that you will one day be able to go home from a clear desk. It’s never going to happen.

The plain truth is that there will always be work undone at the end of the day.

This gives you three options:

1) Go home, but take the work with you and spend your evening doing it. This ensures maximum friction at… » Continue

September 3 2007 | By Adrian | Tagged: balance, overwork, workaholic, worklife | 22 comments»

Avoid Getting Crazybusy

Dr. Edward Hallowell, a Sudbury psychiatrist, has written a book about the world we live in in regards to information overload and the attention deficit disorder it causes.

“They’re juggling deadlines, games, rehearsals, and school meetings,” says Hallowell. “They’re worrying about how the grocery shopping, cooking, and laundry will get done. People want to do all these activities. But they take on more than they can reasonably do. E-mail tends to… » Continue

March 8 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: information, overwork, prevention, prioritizing | no comments»

Focusing on What Matters (and Ignoring What Does Not)

As I look back at this week’s postings on Slow Leadership, I notice that most of them were concerned with helping people stop wasting their time and energy on fruitless endeavors.

Take the first post, entitled: To Succeed, First Forget About Leadership Technique. In it, I argued that belief that success—in just about any business or leadership —comes from one simple source (applying the correct “leadership technique), is both… » Continue

October 30 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: civilized-work, decision-making, firstthingsfirst, freedom, Hamburger-Management, lifebalance, Lifehack, Management, overwork, prioritization, problem, problemsolving, technique, timemanagement, work-life, work/life-balance, working, worklife | 1 comment»

Speed, Accidents, and Anxiety

You’re driving along the freeway. The traffic is heavy and the weather is bad; there’s water on the road and occasional patches of ice. You’re already late for an appointment and you’re worrying that your boss is going to find out and get mad at you, so you’re driving way too fast for the conditions. Everyone else seems to be in a hurry too. Your hands are gripping the wheel… » Continue

September 4 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: anxiety, business-fundamentalism, discontentment, fear, insanity, leadership, lifebalance, Lifestyle, living, Management, motivation, organization, overwork, slow-leadership, speed, strategy, stress, work-life, work/life-balance, workflow, working, worklife, worrying | 2 comments»

“Hamburger Management”

A leader forced to utilize “hamburger management” is like a cordon bleu chef told to work as a short-order cook and produce nothing but hamburgers with french fries every day. Any organization that uses this approach is like a diner who eats nothing else. The first becomes bored, frustrated and disillusioned; the second becomes sick rather quickly.

Hamburger management is any form of leadership or management technique that utilizes only a… » Continue

July 9 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: civilized-work, creativity, decision, leadership, managememt, Management, manager, organization, overwork, performance, prioritization, time, timemanagement, work, work-life, workflow, workstyle | 4 comments»

Civilizing Corporate Culture

This week, I’ve been thinking a great deal about what counts as a “civilized” corporate and workplace culture. That’s because I’m deep into the editing process with my new book, Slow Leadership: How to Civilize Your Workplace, which will be published this Fall. The more I think about it, the more is seems to me that much of corporate America — much of the Western corporate world, if it comes to that — has taken a large step backwards in recent years in providing truly civilized working conditions. » Continue

June 12 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: achievement, burnout, civilization, civilized-work, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Lifehack, Lifestyle, Management, manager, organization, overwork, prioritization, time, work, work-life, work/life-balance | 3 comments»

Getting Too Intense About Work

It’s easy to get intense about your work. But it’s a major step from there to treating your job with such intensity it starts to take over nearly all of your life. Don’t just shrug off burnout as superstition or think you’re immune. It’s a serious issue that can wreck lives and produce problems for other people as well. » Continue

May 1 2006 | By Adrian | Tagged: burnout, energy, feeling, health, lifebalance, lifehacks, Lifestyle, managememt, overwork, Productivity, stress, work-life, worrying | 5 comments»

Be smarter at work, slack off

Anne Fisher, Fortune senior writer has an article talking about why ‘less is more’. The main point to note in the article: when human brain is tired and stressed out, it becomes harder to come up with new ideas. It is suggested that sometimes it is good to spend some time to rewind, and look for connections between ideas:

…What scientists have only recently begun to realize is that people may… » Continue

March 28 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: idea, overwork, Productivity | 3 comments»