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高管级别的自杀似乎与人们的常识不符。凯恩说:“高管群体的心理健康状况优于组织中的较低级别群体。他们掌握着更多的资源,面临着较少的经济问题。面对生活中的逆境,他们能得到更多人的帮助。他们的个性往往与他们的成功密不可分,这让他们的个性化需求得到了宣泄。”
Suicide within the C-suite almost seems counterintuitive. "As a class of people, top executives tend to have better mental health than those on the lower rungs of an organization," says Caine. "They have more resources and less financial issues, more people to help them with the adversities in their lives, and their idiosyncrasies are often tied to their success, giving them an outlet for their creative needs."
不过,法国枫丹白露的欧洲工商管理学院(INSEAD)商学院管理学教授曼弗雷德•凯茨•德•弗里斯表示:高管的压力正在逐渐增加,这已经不再是秘密。信息时代不断增长的需求已经让每天的工作时间延长到了极限。瑞士电信公司的施洛特在自杀前几个月曾经抱怨自己总得处于能联系上的状态。他在五月的某期《瑞士周报》(Schweiz am Sonnta)的采访中解释说:“可能发生的最危险的事,是你陷入了永动机的模式当中。当你一直要查看智能手机,查看有没有新邮件时,你就再也不可能发现其他任何事情了。”
But it is no secret that pressure on C-level executives is mounting, says Manfred Kets de Vries, a management professor at INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France. The growing demands of the information age have stretched the workday to its limits. A few months before his death, Swisscom's Schloter complained about constantly having to be reachable. "The most dangerous thing that can happen is that you drop into a mode of permanent activity," he explained in an interview with Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag in May. "When you permanently check your smartphone to see if there are any new emails, it leads to you not finding any rest whatsoever."
凯茨•德•弗里斯还获得过精神分析学的学位,他说:“我们得非常谨慎地管理这些设备,而我们当中很多人做得并不好。我给很多首席执行官上过课,在我的课堂上禁止使用电脑、iPhone和iPad。我发现人们对于这些设备的依赖已经到了病态的地步。去年有个学生,我一度怀疑他膀胱出了毛病。实际上,他只是得定时出去查看他三部手机里的短信。”
"You have to manage these devices very carefully, and many of us don't do it very well," says Kets de Vries, who also holds a degree in psychoanalysis. "I work a lot with CEOs, and in my classes, computers, iPhones, and iPads are not allowed. I have noticed a dependency on these devices, to the point where it becomes a disease. I had a student last year I suspected of having a weak bladder. In fact, he had to go out regularly to check his messages on his three phones."
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