This Week on LinkedIn Live: How company cultures thwart attempts at work-life balance... and what to do.
How can we achieve big career goals in high pressure environments-- and preserve time for living? It's difficult, but not impossible.
A recent lawsuit that blamed investment bank Goldman Sachs for work-induced stress highlights how easy it is for many of us to internalize the extreme expectations of our employers. We can lose perspective and inhale the cultural expectations around us, which is exactly the point, argues Bloomberg's Sarah Green Carmichael. "The whole point of company culture is to get employees to internalize the organization’s expectations. And elite employers intentionally seek out employees who are strongly self-motivated and self-disciplined; those who, in other words, excel at putting pressure on themselves. They usually consider such personality traits a feature, not a bug. Unless the employee burns out, of course, at which point they’ll be referred for coaching or to the firm’s (useless) wellness program."
Join me, Carmichael, and high performance flexible work expert Cali Yost as we explore the downsides of company culture, and share strategies for maintaining sense of self, right sizing expectations, and finding work-life fit while achieving big things.
Read Sarah Green Carmichael's Bloomberg Opinion article: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-25/suit-against-goldman-shows-risk-of-self-imposed-workloads