Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work

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Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. At TEDxSydney, Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity -- and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen.

Nigel Marsh is the author of "Fat, Forty and Fired" and "Overworked and Underlaid." Full bio »