The Importance of Sleep in the Quality of Leadership

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Tiredness has impacted Ariana's effectiveness and inturned her company. The science of insufficient sleep in the work place can be summarized in the following facts: underslept employees will select less challenging problems that you give them, they are more likely to slack off when working in teams. A founder who has pushed themselves too far and is running on empty becomes a liability to themselves, their employees and their investors. Getting more sleep tends to solve a lot of other problems.

To survive your entrepreneurial journey, you have to learn to recharge. Knowing when to turn the lights out may be the only way to keep the lights on. Few know this better than Arianna Huffington, who dramatically scaled the Huffington Post – and then experienced profound physical burnout. Her venture, Thrive Global, scales the idea of balance across an organization. With cameo appearances from Chris Yeh (co-author, Blitzscaling) and Dr. Matt Walker (author of Why We Sleep).

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