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WORKAHOLISM When we talk to leaders and organizations about play we run squarely into the defense mechanism of denial. Denial surfaces, sometimes aggressively but often passive aggressively, when we confront what we consider to be an epidemic of workaholism that permeates our contemporary culture.

The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership

Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaley Klemp

For instance economics has failed at predicting or even understanding stock market crasheo and changes in social fads, and at addressing straightforward questions like why you can't always just pay people to follow your managerial orders. (Partial answer: If people believe you are trying to control them with the money, rather than reward them, they will rebel rather than cooperate in response to the offered payment.)

Create Your Own Economy

Tyler Cowen

The most well-known modern example of brothers carving out very different kinds of success would probably be the brothers Emanuel—the Chicago triumvirate whose members have each reached the very top of their respective fields: the mayor of Chicago and former White House chief of staff (Rahm), the prominent medical ethicist and health-care policy adviser (Ezekiel), and Hollywood power player and co-CEO of William Morris Endeavor (Ari). All three brothers are breathtakingly ambitious, famously competitive, and incredibly close—after all these years, still talking to one another almost daily.

No One Understands You and What to Do About It

Heidi Halvorson

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