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Sleep: A Challenge To Leaders And Organisations

ByLeaderonomics
Apr 30, 2018 • 1 Min Read
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In our society’s pursuit of productivity and performance, leaders often trade sleep for work.

Yet this drive to maximise our waking hours has a hidden organisational cost that compels us to rethink: how does quantity affect quality?

In this Raise Your Game session, Hui Yi-Wen from the Leaderonomics Experiences division discusses what’s holding members of the workforce back from a good nights’ sleep and why that is a big problem.

RELATED: Sleep Your Way To Better Leadership

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If you would like engage with us to facilitate more engaging conversations in your organisation, email us at info@leaderonomics.com. To know more about what Leaderonomics does as a social enterprise, check out www.leaderonomics.org. For our other Raise Your Game podcasts, click here.

 

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