Chapter 7. What’s a Body to Do? Personal and Corporate Strategies for Health

Ask not for whom the stress tolls, it tolls for thee. Each and every person in business runs the risk of a stress-induced collapse. As some people might give out after hiking 10 miles and other people might give out after 20 miles, some individuals may react to stress faster or fall to the ravages of stress sooner than others. Some people may go a good deal longer. But, if your business life is the equivalent of hiking 25 miles a day—or doing a series of exhausting sprints all day long, day in and day out, year in and year out—eventually you and your body will wear out.

This chapter discusses personal and corporate strategies for maintaining and improving the physical ...

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