Good Practice

Without a net – the high wire act of work-life balance

Issue 15.
July/August 2021

Author
John Pisa-Relli
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John Pisa-Relli currently serves as consulting legal counsel to a multinational aerospace and defense company headquartered in the United States, where he advises on a wide range of trade compliance matters. For the previous ten years, he directed the internal trade compliance program for Accenture, the world’s largest business consulting firm. Prior to joining Accenture, John served in the US federal government, practiced law privately, and served as in-house director of trade compliance with a multinational aerospace and defense group headquartered in Europe. Connect with John on LinkedIn..

With all due respect to Mr. Bezos – a man whose achievements far eclipse my own – I hold fast to the idea of work-life balance.

Amazon CEO/business mogul Jeff Bezos famously spurns the term “work-life balance”. In oft-published interviews he calls it “debilitating” because it “implies there’s a strict trade-off” between our jobs and our private lives. Well, that’s easy for him to say. Centibillionaires see the world differently from you and me. But to be fair, if you delve more deeply into h...

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