Word: perfectionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perfectionist," says a former employee. "He applies this rule to people as well as products and advertising." Revson pays attention to the smallest details, often spends weeks working out the right name or the exact shade for a new lipstick or nail enamel, personally selects models and approves their clothing. He even had his employees' telephones tapped to make sure they were doing their jobs right...
...question remains: Can the team rally around Forbush the way it once gravitated around the sensational Bagnoli? Bagnoli is a perfectionist, and his dogged efforts have made him an excellent and often spectacular performer. In the mud and slime at Philadelphia a week ago, he reached his peak, shutting out the highscoring Pennsylvanians and contributing several flashy saves. His loss will undoubtedly be felt...
...stress-blind" personality cannot recognize his own stress limits. He is usually compulsive about time, overworked, burning to be recognized, restless during his leisure hours, and guilty about not working during them. A perfectionist, he is impatient with subordinates, overmeticulous, prefers doing work to delegating it. His job alone does not produce the stress; more frequently, stress comes from multiple goals and his attitude toward them. To compensate for his anxiety, the stress-blind personality over-eats, smokes and drinks too much, commits himself so heavily that he has no time for exercise...
Last week, in Atlantic City, N.J. for the A.M.A. meeting. Perfectionist DeBakey phoned his secretary to check on patients, added a complaint: he had no white tie and tails with him, had to rent them for a ceremony. The House of Delegates, he explained as an afterthought, had just voted him its 1959 Distinguished Service Award. A gold medal with citation, it is the A.M.A.'s highest recognition for outstanding contributions to medical progress...
...accelerating treadmill. The first sign of his illness is increasing anxiety when the compulsive routine is disturbed, and he soon feels guilty because he is "not working well enough," starts to worry inordinately about details, stuffs his pockets with memos. He cannot take a real vacation. He is a perfectionist-and rigid perfectionism is viewed as a symptom of unconscious guilt. By now, the businessman has something to feel guilty about: he has neglected his family, he feels isolated from his fellow men (especially subordinates), and he gets in a panic because he feels unable to love...