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How sleep loss hurts productivity

conference calls and meet you at eight and they think that means that they are so incredibly busy and productive but the truth is they're not because we at the moment have had b...

Course: English at workSection: Why sleep helps you succeedSubtitles: en

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and do a few

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conference calls and meet you at eight

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and they think that means that they are

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so incredibly busy and productive but

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the truth is they're not

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because we at the moment have had

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brilliant leaders in business in finance

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in politics

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making terrible decisions

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so a high iq does not mean that you're a

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good leader because the essence of

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leadership is being able to see the

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iceberg before it hits the titanic

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and we've had far too many icebergs

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hitting our titanics

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in fact

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i have a feeling that the lehman

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brothers was lehman brothers and sisters

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they might still be around

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while all the brothers were busy you

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know just being hyper-connected 24 7

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maybe a sister would have noticed the

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iceberg because she would have woken up

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from a seven and a half or eight hours

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sleep

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and have been able to see the big

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picture

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so as we are facing all the multiple

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crises

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in our world at the moment

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what is

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