As member [of NZIM] since 1978, I have been constantly pained by the preoccupation with measuring executive success by the size of the salary and car. At long last (Paying the Price, Management, July 2002) you have published recognition that there are other factors to be considered.
To my mind, someone whose preoccupation with climbing the corporate ladder detrimentally affects their health, marriage and relationship with their children, is failure. It is not measure of success to cause heartache to the one to whom promise to love, honour and cherish has been made, nor to deny children of the marriage the comfort of stable, two parent home environment.
As for me, I choose to work to live, and not the reverse.
Roger Cole, Nelson
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