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When Work Takes Over Your Life

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Is Zmal the Number One Benefit?

The concept of zmal is not a work curfew. It's the idea that you have ou set of boundary. No emales on week ends. Don't send them on saturdays or sundays. And on week nights, no emales between ten p m and six a m. Try it for a month amongst your team. Set a boundary for you. Come up with an overbearing client who doesn't respect boundaries. A boss less enlightened than dan, an entitled colleague, an overbearing employer. Meet chris voss - he spent 24 years as a hostage negotiator. To find out what it takes to break free of these pressures, i went to someone where setting boundaries is

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