"Emotionally Invested In Work" = Have Nothing Else

Not always true, but often the case -- and these people tend to make the absolute worst team managers.

Here is the 197,302nd article written in the last few years about “being overly invested in your job.” It’s the typical pipe job from HBR whereby a consultant, hoping this byline will land him/her a “whale” client, starts talking about their current client, “Tom” (in this case it’s Luis). “Tom” is almost always the author’s brother, because they only ha…