Beating the 24/7
How Business Leaders Achieve a Successful Work/Life Balance
Chapter One
SIR RICHARD BRANSON
Richard Branson is chairman of the Virgin Group of Companies, a
venture capital organisation with investments in the travel, retailing,
leisure, music, communications and financial services industries. He is
president of the British Disabled Water Ski Association, a committee
member of Friends of the Earth, a trustee of the Healthcare Foundation,
which he founded, of the National Holiday Fund, of the Trevor Jones
Trust, of the Paul O'Gorman Foundation and of the London School
for the Performing Arts and Technology.
He was born in 1950, educated at Stowe and is married with
two children.
"Achieving a satisfactory work/life balance depends, above
all, on working with the right kind of company. If you are
running your own company it will obviously be easier than if you
are not, and if it is easier for you, you should try to make it easier
for your managers and staff as well. I am a great believer in the
philosophy of 'work hard, play hard'. If you can keep yourself
physically fit an ... read full excerpt from Beating the 24/7 : How Business Leaders Achieve a Successful Work-Life Balance ebook
