Sleeping with Your Smartphone : How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work

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Disconnect for better work-life balance.

This book is an excellent guide for individuals and teams struggling with the constant pressure to stay connected. Leslie Perlow's research and examples from a leading consulting firm will show how small changes can make a big difference in achieving work-life balance. The step-by-step guide will help readers establish collective goals, encourage conversation, and gain leadership support to implement changes within their teams. A must-read for anyone looking to improve their productivity and work-life balance.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Sleeping with Your Smartphone : How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work

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ISBN: 9781422144046
Authors: Leslie A. Perlow
Date of Publication: 2012-05-08
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Personal Development, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 3.13
(rated by 206 readers)

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Does it have to be this way?Can’t resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office—but at what cost?In Sleeping with Your Smartphone , Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and accomplish more at work.The good news is that this doesn’t require a grand organizational makeover or buy-in from the CEO. All it takes is collaboration between you and your team—working together and making small, doable changes.What started as an experiment with a six-person team at The Boston Consulting Group—one of the world’s elite management consulting firms—triggered a global initiative that eventually spanned more than nine hundred BCG teams in thirty countries across five continents. These teams confronted their nonstop workweeks and changed the way they worked, becoming more efficient and effective.The result? Employees were more satisfied with their work-life balance and with their work in general. And the firm was better able to recruit and retain employees. Clients also benefited—often in unexpected ways.In this engaging book, Perlow takes you inside BCG to witness the challenges and benefits of disconnecting. She provides a step-by-step guide to introducing change on your team—by establishing a collective goal, encouraging open dialogue, ensuring leadership support—and then spreading change to the rest of your firm.If you and your colleagues are grappling with the “always on” problem, it’s time to disconnect—and start reading.
 

Disconnect for better work-life balance.

This book is an excellent guide for individuals and teams struggling with the constant pressure to stay connected. Leslie Perlow's research and examples from a leading consulting firm will show how small changes can make a big difference in achieving work-life balance. The step-by-step guide will help readers establish collective goals, encourage conversation, and gain leadership support to implement changes within their teams. A must-read for anyone looking to improve their productivity and work-life balance.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.