Srikumar Rao Quotes

To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.

It’s really very hard to tell people to think at work but not at home.

A lot of effort and money are - rightly - expended keeping the president physically safe. But it's up to the president to maintain a schedule that allows for refueling, so as to be physically and cognitively at his or her best at all times. That's what it means to be strong, tough, and truly fit for the highest office.

Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.

With respect to keeping your sanity, the more you are dedicated to your job, the more you think about it. And there is so much to think about for the director.

Yes, CEOs are under pressure from all sides, and executives have all sorts of people pushing and pulling at them. But too often, they begin to view and treat their teams, and especially their assistants, as appliances. And a good assistant knows that the last thing their boss wants to hear from them is a personal complaint about anything.

It is vital that a company's culture shows a willingness to invest in employee wellbeing with no stigma or penalty attached to prioritising good health.

It's impossible to leave our emotions and experiences outside the work place - they inform us and make us who we are.

Even though I wrote 'The 3 Big Questions for a Frantic Family,' my life is as chaotic as most people's.

I've urged employers to address workers' pain.

We're lousy at recognizing when our normal coping mechanisms aren't working. Our response is usually to do it five times more, instead of thinking, maybe it's time to try something new.

We should aim for every workplace to be a place which encourages good mental health.

If you didn't relax away from your work, you'd tear your hair out in the middle of the night worrying about the next game when it's only a Monday and you're not playing until Saturday.

I have a super-balanced life, and I'm a super balanced guy.

Things in the industry get too competitive. In that pressure, you tend to lose yourself. So, it's important to have someone to turn to and vent out.

Because being CEO can feel lonely, I journal religiously as a way to express my thoughts, feelings and aspirations. Looking back at earlier entries helps me reflect on challenges and celebrate progress and successes.

I think I've always been regarded as a mentally strong person and a tough character, but it took me a while to reach a point where I realised that internalising your emotions wasn't doing me any good.

I think I did a good job of compartmentalizing my life. It's crazy to say it, but even if football was this dangerous thing, it was a place where I could focus all my energy. I'm sure it's not the healthiest thing to direct stress from football into football, but that's basically what I did.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

Resilience presents a challenge for psychologists. Whether you can be said to have it or not largely depends not on any particular psychological test but on the way your life unfolds.

I think, as human beings, we need some balance in our life, right?

If I did not have a de-stresser such as writing novels, I would lose focus at work.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.