Sleep

A warning for the sleep-deprived.

And sleep-deprived employees are harder to inspire.

Many hard-charging managers pride themselves on their ability to work long hours and get by on 5 or 6 hours of sleep. But the truth is that they're shortchanging...

The first morning I met Kevin Crain, a Managing Director at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, he was feeling tired, as he did most days. We were at a conference Kevin was hosting for the institutional retirement team and a group of their corporate clients. He’d invited me to the event to speak about managing personal […]

Discover what a study of 35,000 leaders revealed about taking time to rest.

What science tells us about the long-term effects.

Getting enough sleep and eating right will help other habits stick.

Rest is essential for logical reasoning, attention, and mood.

When you think you don’t have time for it is when you need it the most.

Exhaustion shouldn’t be a badge of honor.

Discover what a study of 35,000 leaders revealed about taking time to rest.

Managers need more rest. Here’s how to get it.

To function at your best, maintain a regular sleep schedule that includes 7 - 8 hours of sleep per night.

The Huffington Post and Glamour’s Sleep Challenge 2010 initially gave me hope, despite the subtitle (“Women, It’s Time to Sleep Our Way to the Top. Literally.”). Perhaps the allure stemmed from wanting to believe so badly that the situation could improve, even when faced with the fact that only 1.5% of the CEOs running 2,000 […]

How to get the rest you need.

Allocating resources? Develop a tool to score and rank priorities.

Airlines have long been cutting back on frills to reduce costs. Now American Airlines and Continental are hesitating to implement a rule that would lengthen the layover time pilots must spend on long haul flights in order to give them more time to sleep. Both airlines say that they have strong safety records and that […]

Let's cut to the chase. Say you decide to go on a fast, and so you effectively starve yourself for a week. At the end of seven days, how would you be...

For every hour that sleep was interrupted the previous night, research participants monitored during a 42-minute task spent an additional 8.4 minutes cyberloafing—checking personal e-mail or visiting unrelated websites—according to a team led by David T. Wagner, of Singapore Management University. The fact that sleep-deprived people are more apt to give in to cyberloafing temptation […]

Going to bed at the same time each day can help you find time and energy you didn't know you had.

This case introduces the story of RedMed, the leading provider of sleep apnea devices. The company, founded by Dr. Peter Farrell and Dr. Colin Sullivan...

A warning for the sleep-deprived.

And sleep-deprived employees are harder to inspire.

Russell Sanna, executive director of the Division of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Many hard-charging managers pride themselves on their ability to work long hours and get by on 5 or 6 hours of sleep. But the truth is that they're shortchanging...

We deserve to have the autonomy to decide if, and when, we need rest.

The first morning I met Kevin Crain, a Managing Director at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, he was feeling tired, as he did most days. We were at a conference Kevin was hosting for the institutional retirement team and a group of their corporate clients. He’d invited me to the event to speak about managing personal […]

Discover what a study of 35,000 leaders revealed about taking time to rest.

What science tells us about the long-term effects.

This case introduces the story of RedMed, the leading provider of sleep apnea devices. The company, founded by Dr. Peter Farrell and Dr. Colin Sullivan...

Getting enough sleep and eating right will help other habits stick.