People get together and make connections for all sorts of reasons and often there are ulterior motives that have a commercial nature. You get a call from an acquaintance or a friend for lunch or for breakfast, and rarely is it simply to catch up with one another's private lives. Often it's in order to make a deal. There's a new sense of relationship in which personal and commercial are intertwined that seriously threatens the quality of friendships and even the quality of one's own sense of self. The solution begins with the individual.
People have to take stock of how they are living and make some conscious choices.
The second domain of change must be employers. But there is a yawning gap between rhetoric and reality. If companies were to take a longer-term view of their competitive position, they'd understand that they are paying dearly for turnover, burnout, and loss of, often, very talented people, because they are not understanding what those people need to live whole lives. But beyond the individual choices and the choices companies make, there are social choices as well, from the small to the large. Let me give you some examples.