Working Hard, Playing Hard
The central character is a former MBA student who feels skeptical after observing the lifestyles that some of his former classmates are leading. He thinks that many of them are so overwhelmed by the will power to achieve their goals that they have the problem of not knowing how to relax (leisure needs to be productive and efficient for them). He is also thinking of the life style many of his classmates led during the MBA (mainly immature) and the ways in which they used to have fun. On the other hand there is the different vision exemplified by Matt, another classmate, which goes in the opposite direction and does not look very positive either.
So, the initial dilemma of the case would be based on how should an equilibrium be found between achieving one's professional goals without forgetting that relaxing and enjoying simple things in life is also very important.
Collection: IESE (España)
Ref: DPO-83-E
Format: PDF
Number of pages: 5
Publication Date: May 24, 2006
Language: English
Description
The central character is a former MBA student who feels skeptical after observing the lifestyles that some of his former classmates are leading. He thinks that many of them are so overwhelmed by the will power to achieve their goals that they have the problem of not knowing how to relax (leisure needs to be productive and efficient for them). He is also thinking of the life style many of his classmates led during the MBA (mainly immature) and the ways in which they used to have fun. On the other hand there is the different vision exemplified by Matt, another classmate, which goes in the opposite direction and does not look very positive either.
So, the initial dilemma of the case would be based on how should an equilibrium be found between achieving one's professional goals without forgetting that relaxing and enjoying simple things in life is also very important.
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Learning Objective
Self Control and Peer Pressure;
leisure aiming to achieving goals;
healthy/unhealthy habbits;
mature/immature behaviors;
rules and corporate image of restrain;
work hard, play hard paradigm in executive's life
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