TEDxSydney - Nigel Marsh - Work Life Balance is an Ongoing Battle

Nigel Marsh is the bestselling author of "Fat, Forty and Fired" and "Overworked and Underlaid" and the Regional Group CEO of Young and Rubicam Brands for Australia & New Zealand. Finding the balance between work and life is an ongoing battle.

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TEDxSydney 2010 was organised by General Thinking and took place on Saturday 22 May 2010 at CarriageWorks. Almost 2,000 people enjoyed the day, over 700 in the theatre and the rest via big screen simulcast in The Forum. It was a grand day.

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[researchfiend]

Life is hard even for those without a young family. Contemporary work is horrible for anyone.

[testtubical]

Another excellent video from TED. You can use the website CubeCheck to review what it is like to work somewhere and discuss the work live balance at any company as well as find the benefits and management styles. Very helpful for those in the workforce.

[leedhamcreative]

Great work Nigel.

[BizzMarki]

That was Art Tatum's famous tiny's exercise at the beginning...

[michaelmuller]

Not enough sex.

[RichBrIs]

Great talk. Nigel says he's been working on this for 7 years - has he published his experiences? The two books of his on amazon look related but not specifically focussed on work-life balance. Would love to hear more from him on this.

[presentingclass]

Thanks to P.os@AskAms.com for reminding me about Nigel's talk. Lee

[stick1001001]

Best idea worth spreading....

[juliebisset]

@KittyKranker

Hope your supervisor didn't notice you watching youtube videos while on the job!

[PalindromeDesign]

I wholly agree with his ideals and was trying to have that balanced life until the Recession killed my business. Now I am a signature away from turning my business and my life over to a company of workaholics who are slaves to an inanimate timesheet program. They are all working to create fictional amounts of billable hours in a competition to apease the managers by subconciously creating problems and tasks for each other that make it easier to justify their "long hours". Recessions SUCK!

[TheGlossyglitz]

my goodness, your a flamin genius.

[lowerlowerhk]

That is one of the few Ted"x" talks that I admire