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Apr 2
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Please Sleep: It Makes You More Charisma...

Morra Aarons-Mele
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Are you actually more productive when you work longer hours or just more exhausted? In this episode, I talk with Christopher Barnes, Professor of Management and the Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, about the ingrained belief that sacrificing sleep is the price of success and why that belief ... Show More
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