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Work Life balance slows careers


Working harder DOES get you there faster — at a cost.

Self-help books and countless motivational speakers evangelize the dream that you can have it all: a great family, a 45-hour work week, a head full of luxurious hair, and faster career growth than your peers. Back then at work, I was experiencing what in hindsight may well have been the high point of my entire career: leading the Facebook London engineering office, its first international development outpost. But I’m not going to blow sunshine and sell you some fantasy where you’re no smarter or luckier than your peers, and you work no harder, yet you break the career velocity sound barrier through positive manifestation and three simple tips.

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