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Sleeping With Your Smartphone by Leslie A. Perlow

2018-04-09

How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way you Work: all about her work with BCG to implement PTO to bring more predictability and work-life balance to their crazy consulting schedules.

Introduction

• this book shares the BCG story and is a guide for implementing PTO in your organization
• "The Cycle of Responsiveness": always on leads to expectation to be always on in vicious cycle --> you need to set expectations
• PTO = predictability + teaming + open communication

Part I: How A Team Turns Off

• started with one predictable night off per week
• reinstated the "Pulse check"
  • How are you feeling?
  • How much value are we delivering to the client?
  • How satisfied are you with your learning?
  • Is the current operating model sustainable for you?
• PTO: Collective goal of predicable time off + Structured dialogue = Better work and better lives
• 1. Collective goal must be:
  • Personally valued by everyone
  • Doable but still a stretch
  • Collective and shared
  • Requires integrative thinking
  • A means, not just an end
• 2. Structured dialogue

• Chapter 5: writing a daily update to a team blog makes you think twice about what you to do make sure it is value added

Part II: The Magic of the Process

Part III: Getting Started On Your Team

• the team leader's role is critical: they must be on board and read this to be successful (naturally)
• gives example slides and meeting agenda for introducing this to a team

Part IV: From Team to Organization

• have organizational "PTO facilitators"