阿迪耐克高仿批发货源:关于过劳死?

关于过劳死

It's tough at the top to gain a classical state of fitness

“人们没有意识到他工作有多么努力，”一位基金经理说道。“他凌晨4:30起床，一直到晚上9:30才回家。”这位劳动模范是经纪公司西莫尔皮尔斯(Seymour Pierce)的零售业分析师理查德?拉特纳(Richard Ratner)，他因工作时心脏病发作去世，年仅58岁。+ t7 [# o' ^/ L+ K" E! a8 j
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    人们亲切地把他称作“拉蒂(Ratty)”，他是零售领域一位声望颇高的评论人士，深受投资者的信任和商业领袖的敬重，记者们几乎每天都会引用他的话。没有了拉特纳的评论，在英国大街上，今年的圣诞节将会令人很不习惯。+ ?* |  c5 P, ^- u  l
    我不是心脏病专家，所以如果我说这又是一起“过劳死”事件，未免有些自以为是，没有品位。不管怎样，那些认识拉特纳的人都会谈到他巨大的工作热情。西莫尔皮尔斯网站的一位撰稿人写到：“和大多数工作十分出色的人一样，人们能够清楚地感受到他的工作激情。”他女儿也自豪地谈到他是多么地享受工作与家庭生活。
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    在商业中，健康——如同午餐一样——是为懦夫准备的。没人会让小小的伤风或是轻微的流感阻止自己继续工作。英国特许管理学会(Chartered Management Institute)的调查显示，三分之一的经理害怕请病假。如果背痛，就吃点药。浓咖啡可以对付睡眠不足。对于有这种想法或需要的人来说，总有效力更强的药。
    然后，就是高层人士承受的“所有那些压力”。当然，这可能会（在不止一个方面）误解企业和机构内部不同层级存在的实际情况。
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    成功人士欢迎更多职责带来的压力。正如我学生时代的橄榄球教练经常（徒劳地）鼓励我的那样，他们选择了“去受罪”。这些人之所以可以登上顶峰，正是因为他们对疼痛的耐受力比其它人更强。( p$ M) h9 g2 A4 }5 ~4 [
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    这就是体育心理学者所说的“意志力”——在放弃似乎更为明智时继续前行的能力。
    领导者那肮脏的小秘密就是，当领导的压力远远比不上当下属。没有工作自主权和控制权，这才是真正的压力。无聊的重复性任务和被排斥在真正有意思的网络之外，那才会让工作不愉快和对健康造成潜在危害。如果你不相信我，那就去读读迈克尔?马莫爵士(Sir Michael Marmot)的著作《地位综合症》(Status Syndrome)——这本书是根据他对相关领域长达30年的研究成果写作而成的。, N# J$ N: `  B, ~6 h. j
    目前，世界各地都在讨论身心健康的话题。肥胖程度和酒精消费困扰着公共决策者。医疗保健看来会是明年美国总统大选的一个重要话题。美国导演迈克?摩尔的纪录片《精神病人》(Sicko)进一步将这个问题推上了议程。这也不是一个管理层可以避开的话题。! \8 h1 m2 S' u0 ?& \- m4 D
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    “我们用尽了一切办法来提高生产率，”医疗保健咨询公司Vielife的首席执行官克莱夫?平德(Clive Pinder)指出。“培训和发展、新技术、员工参与计划……我们认为人力部门还能提出什么其它构想呢？在这个竞争越来越激烈的世界里，健康的人才能更好地应对不断增加的压力，在我看来，这是再明显不过的了。”
    随着商业节奏的加快，这些压力只会上升。每天的工作时间越来越长，工作量越来越大。同事们常常夸那些受人尊敬的领导“总是有时间”留给他人。但在同一个时刻，你真正能关注的直接报告有多少份呢？如果你管理的是一个全球部门，各个团队都会想看到活生生的你，所以可以想见，你几乎不得不永远生活在时差里。为此而失眠只会让事情变得更糟糕。不规律的睡眠会增加肾上腺素的分泌，导致血压升高——这是心脏病的一大诱因。但有谁会中断重要会议，要求去躺一会儿，甚至是“打个盹儿”？这种情况不可能出现。
    与此同时，我们高卡路里、缺乏运动的生活方式，似乎正在引导我们中的许多人走向灾难——尤其是我们这些与毛巾纷飞的健身房无缘的人们。5 R% s5 _! p8 o0 Y* p/ f9 T/ B% [: ~
    在控制体重方面，我做得最成功的是当年在橄榄球队争球的时候。我多么羡慕法国女演员艾曼纽?贝阿(Emmanuelle Béart)啊。她在一次采访中说：“看吧，我今年40岁，这是我的身体，这是我丰满的躯体，这是我的曲线，我喜欢它们，我为它们而骄傲。”
    罗马人也许已经明智地告诉了我们，要将“健全的心灵寓于健全的身体(mens sana in corpore sano)”。但我们当前的健康危机引来了另一句经典的回复：“啊，时势！啊，风尚！”(O tempora! O mores!)。要适应未来，我们任重而道远。+ F  B/ p8 Q)

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“People didn't realise how enormously hard he worked,” the fund manager said. “He got up at 4.30 am and wasn't back home until 9.30 pm.”The Stakhanovite in question was the retail analyst Richard Ratner from the brokerage firm Seymour Pierce, who died a couple of weeks ago after suffering a heart attack at work. He was 58.

     “Ratty”, as he was affectionately known, was a highly regarded commentator on the retail sector, trusted by investors, respected by business leaders and quoted almost daily by journalists. It will be a strange Christmas this year on the UK high street, with no Ratner to explain what is really going on.
    I am not a cardiologist. It would be presumptuous, as well as tasteless, to suggest we are looking at another example of “death by overwork” here. In any case, those who knew him spoke of Ratner's great enthusiasm for his job. One contributor to Seymour Pierce's website wrote: “Like most people who are really good at what they do, his passion for his work was palpable.” His daughter, too, spoke with pride at how much he had enjoyed work as well as family life.3 }( v% S6 i9 \4 b* _( f

     In business, health, like lunch, is for wimps. No one is going to allow a mere head cold or mild bout of flu to stop them getting on with their work. According to a survey by the UK's Chartered Management Institute, one in three managers is afraid to take time off when ill. If you've got backache, take some pills. Strong coffee can deal with any lack of sleep. For those who want them, or need them, stronger drugs will always be available.
    And then there is “all that stress” endured by those at the top. Except, of course, that this is to misunderstand – in more ways then one – what really happens at different levels within businesses and organisations.
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    Successful people welcome the pressure that comes with greater responsibility. They have chosen to “get in there where it hurts”, as my rugby coach used to encourage me, in vain, at school. They have got to the top precisely because they have a higher pain threshold than others. * Q& C: s9 [# \% {: L
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    This is what the sports psychologists call “mental toughness” – the ability to keep going even when it might seem more sensible to stop.
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    The dirty little secret of leadership is that it is not nearly as stressful as being a subordinate. Lack of autonomy and control over your work – now, that is stressful. Boring, repetitive tasks and being excluded from the really interesting networks – this is what makes working life unpleasant and potentially damaging to health. If you don't believe me, read Sir Michael Marmot's book Status Syndrome, based on his three decades of research into the subject.# a0 H  [  f. \8 Q
    Health and well being are being discussed all over the developed and developing worlds at the moment. Levels of obesity and alcohol consumption are troubling public policymakers. Healthcare looks likely to be a big issue in next year's US presidential election, while Michael Moore's latest polemical film Sicko has driven the subject further up the agenda. This is not a conversation that management can afford to duck out of either.
    “We have tried everything else in our attempts to boost productivity,” argues Clive Pinder, chief executive of Vielife, a healthcare consultancy. “Training and development, new technology, employee engagement programmes . . . what else do we think HR departments are going to come up with? To me it is blindingly obvious that healthy people cope better with the growing pressures of this increasingly competitive world.”
    As the pace of business speeds up, these pressures can only rise. Working days get longer and ever more gets packed in. Admired leaders are often praised by their colleagues for “always having time” for people. But how many direct reports can you really pay attention to at any one time? If you are running a global division, teams will want to see you in the flesh. You can expect to have to live with almost permanent jet lag. Losing sleep over all this will only make things worse. Irregular sleep patterns boost adrenaline levels, causing blood pressure to rise – which is a big risk factor for heart attacks. But who would ever interrupt a key meeting to request time out for a lie-down, or even a “power nap”? It is not going to happen.
    Meanwhile, our high-calorie, sedentary lifestyles seem to be leading many of us to disaster – particularly those of us who are strangers to the fluffy-towelled environment of the gym. 9 k! `4 A, T4 D0 L  k5 v
   I am no more successful at keeping my weight down than I ever was at retrieving the rugby ball from the scrum. How I envy the self-confidence of the French actress Emmanuelle Béart, who declared in an interview: “Look, I'm 40, this is my body, this is my plenitude, these are my curves, I like them and I'm proud of them.”
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    The Romans might have told us, wisely, to aim for mens sana in corpore sano. But our present health crisis provokes a different classical response: O tempora! O mores! We have a lot to do to get fit for the future.