Why this CEO doesn't believe in work-life balance

The variety of working lifestyles displayed in Silicon Valley ranges from those who manage to employ the perfect work-life balance to those that don’t appear to have any work-life balance at all.

Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s COO, earnestly believes that employees shouldn’t have to choose between work and their families – she extended sick leave, care leave and paid leave earlier this year - while other “post-human” tech tycoons, such as Elon Musk and Tim Cook, respectively, work 80- to 100-hour weeks and wake up at 3.45am as work and life merge as one.

It appears that the CEO of Yamaha Motors, Hiroshi Saijou, fits into the Cook-Musk school of thinking, claiming that he “doesn’t like the term work-life balance”.

Yet, with increasing reports and literature on the importance of balancing professional commitments with personal recuperation: why would Saijou say such a thing?