The drive to win is not, per se, a bad thing. Problems arise, however, when the metric becomes the only measure of success, when what you achieve is … - Simon Sinek

It is not the demands of the job that cause the most stress, but the degree of control workers feel they have throughout their day. The studies also found that the effort required by a job is not in itself stressful, but rather the imbalance between the effort we give and the reward we feel. Put simply: less control, more stress.

Rebecca Baer, a spokeswoman for TiVo, told the New York Times in 2000, "they don't understand why they need this.

Our decisions are driven by feelings, sometimes (although not always) backed up by logic and reason.