Grant Freeland began to worry about the amount of hours he put in at work when a number of talented consultants in his Boston office left. They were burnt out and desperate to have a life outside work. Serendipitously, he was contacted by Leslie Perlow, professor of leadership in organisational behaviour at Harvard Business School. She had a question that he too wanted answering: could consultants, at the beck and call of clients’ demands, ever have anything approaching a work-life balance?
當許多才華橫溢的諮詢顧問離開其在波士頓的辦事處時,葛倫•弗裏蘭(Grant Freeland)也開始對自己投到這麼多時間到工作中感到擔憂。他們感到疲憊不堪,拼命想在工作之外擁有自己的生活。偶然間,哈佛商學院(Harvard Business School)研究組織行爲中領導方法的萊斯莉•珀洛(Leslie Perlow)教授聯繫到了他。