Behaviour: How to avoid executive stress
Thomas DeLongHarvard Business School
Organisational behaviour expert, Thomas DeLong highlights a familiar problem with successful executives: the drive to achieve can be an addiction with the same impact as substance abuse. Here are ways to recognise it and try to control it.
Mark, a well-known CEO, told me of the time he visited his brother in a drug treatment centre. This was the third time Mark's brother, a highly successful physician, had attempted to break his addiction to prescription drugs.
Mark said that he will always remember the experience of being confronted by...