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Sleeping with your smartphone : how to break the 24/7 habit and change the way you work / Leslie A. Perlow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Review Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 274 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781422144060
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HD5106 .S544 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
The winning formula -- Speaking openly -- Passion and action -- Experimenting with change -- together -- Small steps, big results -- The team leader's crucial role -- Defining the team and the goal -- The first meeting and beyond -- A firmwide initiative -- Introducing facilitators -- Reimagining work.
Subject: Argues that monitoring one's electronic business communication 24/7 is actually counterproductive and offers a plan for companies to take time to "disconnect" in order to boost their productivity.Subject: 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 this book, 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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The experiment -- The winning formula -- Speaking openly -- Passion and action -- Experimenting with change -- together -- Small steps, big results -- The team leader's crucial role -- Defining the team and the goal -- The first meeting and beyond -- A firmwide initiative -- Introducing facilitators -- Reimagining work.

Argues that monitoring one's electronic business communication 24/7 is actually counterproductive and offers a plan for companies to take time to "disconnect" in order to boost their productivity.

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 this book, 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.

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