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Article: Managing the workaholic (in you!): Have you ever seen a headstone that read, "If only I had spent more time at work"?(LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT)
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- Healthcare Financial Management
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
--Proverb
"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion."
--C. Northcote Parkinson
"If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your mouth shut."
--Albert Einstein
What's wrong with this picture? We're still in our offices at 9:30 at night, working on a column on workaholism. One of us skipped an afternoon workaholics therapy session to work on the column. We admit it: We're workaholics. But admitting that we are workaholics is only the first step to our recovery.