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The organizational cost
of insufficient sleep
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The art and science of well-being at work
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The Effective Executive,
by Peter Drucker
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Article - McKinsey Quarterly
The organizational cost
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Technology companies
and telcos have successfully adopted sleep pods
and nap rooms.
One firm’s productivity
rose when it tested planned nights off, without email,
work, or smartphones.
Create tag teams to hand over the reins to other teams, in different time zones, at the end of shifts.
Encourage the earlier
flight, not the red-eye.
A US software company gives a $7,500 bonus to employees disconnecting
on vacation.
To create more sleep-friendly cultures, organizations should establish:
Sleep friendly
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Further ways executives can improve their sleep patterns include removing their smartphones from the bedroom, cat-napping in the afternoon—and laying off the snooze button.
Stop snoozing
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But other causes are more personal,
for instance the tendency to bring work home from the office.
Homework
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The organizational cost
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Yet two-thirds of executives are dissatisfied with how much sleep they get, and 55 percent with their quality of sleep. Some causes are organizational.
Emailing in bed
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The organizational cost
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Sleep matters because of its strong link to effective leadership.
Missing link
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