After all, insurance costs and absenteeism are lower and productivity is higher with healthy employees. In recent years, Bastable said, he's realized that physical fitness is only step one. Without the latter, there's small chance that you'll find contentment and self-fulfillment in your work. One of the most famous career success experts in America, Ken Blanchard, who rocketed to fame as author of The One Minute Manager , has most recently written Leadership by the Book , a frankly Bible-based instruction manual for success. Blanchard has much company.
Spirituality is a fuzzy concept for many.
It's all these things, the discussion group agreed. It's carving time and space for reflection. It's recognizing your connection with others and with the environment. And it's knowing that your work adds to, not subtracts from, the quality of your life. Diane Stafford's careers column appears on Sundays.