Nigel Marsh is the bestselling author of “Fat, Forty and Fired” and “Overworked and Underlaid” and, at the time he gave this talk, he was the Regional Group CEO of Young and Rubicam Brands for Australia & New Zealand. Finding the balance between work and life is an ongoing battle.
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Work Life Balance is an Ongoing Battle
Nigel Marsh
TEDxSydney 2010 · 22 May 2010
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