Leaders perform better with rest like athletes do. Aim for 6.5 to 7.5 hours of sleep and daily mini-naps. Sleep deprivation drives workplace incivility, while good sleep boosts creativity and emotional control.
The place I really hone in on is around rest and recovery and sleep. Can you take the little mini nap every day or can you take your mindful moments where you close your eyes and you just rest instead of working all the time? Can you get your sleep up to six and a half, seven, seven and a half hours a night? Everyone's a little different. Can you get your sleep hygiene totally dialed in? So I really try to help leaders just impress upon them the importance of rest. And sleep is such a huge leverage point. And all we have to do is look at what the athletes are doing. They are sleeping, they are resting. And that's hard for us because when we're working, we don't think we need as much because we just go on caffeine and adrenal. And we do that for years.
I think both of those two are really important trends. We are a sleep deprived nation. And if you look at the rise of incivility in the workplace, there's a straight correlation between how much less sleep are people getting and how emotionally regulated they are. The outbursts that we have in the rise of incivility and it's foundational and we don't talk about it. And so if you are a leader, go get your team to get oura rings or get an Apple watch and have people track sleep. It can be the biggest unlock in terms of the creativity.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
