Many Hands; New England's magazine for holistic health
Summer 2005

You need to detach if your job is making you sick
by Anthony Zolezzi

Do you find yourself suffering from sleepless nights, tension headaches or stomach ulcers? Perhaps the source of your problems is a series of control dramas that have been inflicted on you by the people you work with.

Toxic people will make you sick

You many be working in a "toxic" environment without even realizing it. Most people have come to accept 12-hour workdays without lunch breaks and working overtime on the weekend as a way of life. But the fact is, we are putting our physical, emotional and mental health, more and more at risk.

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OPINION, The Record, Bergen County, New Jersey

Coping with stress in a trying job market

Monday, January 10, 2005
By ANTHONY ZOLEZZI and BILL BONVIE
 
MUCH ATTENTION these days is being given to the plight of the average American job-holder, caught in a vise between increasing downsizing and outsourcing on the one hand and ratcheted-up performance expectation levels on the other. READ MORE...

FLINT JOURNAL, Flint, Michigan, Sunday, January 2, 2005

To get ahead on the job ... let go a little
By Todd Seibt, JOURNAL COLUMNIST

Are you a P.O.W. (Prisoner of Work)?
Anthony Zolezzi, author of "The Detachment Paradox," wants to set you free.

Now, there are a lot of skinny business buzzword books that bump across my desk here at The Journal, and some of them are actually good for something.

Like leveling a wobbly table.

Or being shredded and used for a hamster cage.

So I approached Zolezzi's bright yellow work with a healthy dollop of skepticism.

Having said that, I found a lot to like in this easy-to-read book - probably because his job and life philosophies intersect with mine.  READ MORE...

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