Sleep

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

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 […]

New research shows a substantial return on a small investment.

Fatigue destroys self-control in the face of temptation.

Better corporate policies around sleep can prevent accidents.

A warning for the sleep-deprived.

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...

It’s harder to regulate your emotions when you’re tired.

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 […]

Many leaders’ coping mechanisms can seriously backfire.

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 themselves — and their companies. “Sleep is not a luxury,” says Dr. James O’Brien, medical director of the Boston SleepCare Center in Waltham, Mass. “It’s a […]

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 […]

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 Side of Manhattan. I haven’t handled the separation, or the weekly commute, very well. I’m frequently flummoxed by the logistics, I’m too often distracted at work, my […]

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...

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

Daily energy maintenance can help you fend off stress and recharge.

How to get the rest you need.

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...

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...

Here's what worked and what didn't.

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

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 […]

New research shows a substantial return on a small investment.

Fatigue destroys self-control in the face of temptation.

Better corporate policies around sleep can prevent accidents.

Here's what happens to your mind and body when you miss out on too many Zzzzs.

A warning for the sleep-deprived.

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...

It’s harder to regulate your emotions when you’re tired.