Secrets of success: sleeping on airplanes
June 17th, 2010 at 6:50 pm ETFrom the Harvard Business Review blog, the claim that being able to sleep on airplanes is one of the keys to business success at the high end. (Hat tip: Mari Kuraishi.)
Probably true, though “sleeping on airplanes” is really just a proxy for “being able to subordinate your biological, emotional, and social needs to the needs of the company.” Which is one reason why people who rise into the corporate stratosphere seem so different from you and me — they’re cut off by necessity from a lot of the day-to-day experiences (dinner at home, kid’s soccer game, sleeping past 5:15am, etc.) that make up the fabric of the rest of our lives. Even those of us who, you know, are still working in business, but at an altitude a bit less rarefied than the chairman of ExxonMobil.
And on the subject of height (courtesy xkcd):
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June 17th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
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