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Marissa Mayer: Why Work Burnout Is About Resentment

Marissa Mayer: Why Work Burnout Is About Resentment

| September 17, 2012 | 1 Comment

By: Jessica Stillman, INC Ambitious business owners face a delicate balancing act. You want your team (and yourself) to work as hard as possible, but you want to avoid the serious long-term decline in productivity and employee turnover that burnout brings. How hard should you push? What measures should you take to prevent getting burned [...]

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Why I feel Google’s Marisa Mayer has the wrong perspective on burnout

Why I feel Google’s Marisa Mayer has the wrong perspective on burnout

| May 8, 2012 | 0 Comments

It has been a little over a month since Google’s Marisa Mayer gave her talk where she discusses, among other things, career burnout.  According to Schweitzer (2012), Mayer said “she believes there’s no such thing as burnout—that you can work really hard for the rest of your life as long as you know what matters [...]

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