Sleep

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

It's time for the cult of manly wakefulness to end.

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.")....

For the past five months, I've been working in an office in Watertown, Mass., while my family has continued to live in an apartment on the Upper West...

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

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 […]

Fatigue destroys self-control in the face of temptation.

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 […]

Companies today glorify the executive who logs 100-hour workweeks, the road warrior who lives out of a suitcase in multiple time zones, and the negotiator...

And sleep-deprived employees are harder to inspire.

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

A warning for the sleep-deprived.

Hint: Coffee isn't the answer.

Better corporate policies around sleep can prevent accidents.

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

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

Getting plenty of sleep each night has never been high on my list of healthy living strategies. Results from a survey of employees at several large U.S. corporations are prompting me to rethink my irregular sleep schedule. A few years ago, pharmaceutical giant sanofi-aventis sponsored an anonymous, Web-based survey of 4,200 workers at four health […]

Although experts recommend eight hours of sleep a night, many of us don't get that. A recent study of leaders across the world found that 42% average...

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...

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