{"id":923,"date":"2016-04-04T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T21:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=923"},"modified":"2016-04-04T10:16:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T21:16:19","slug":"the-value-of-sleep-mckinsey-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=923","title":{"rendered":"The value of sleep &#8211; McKinsey article"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"infographic\">With a young family and a sometimes-heavy travel schedule, I&#8217;ve always been mindful of the value of sleep.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a fan of an afternoon power-nap rather than a coffee, and believe in the power of uninterrupted sleep.<\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\">McKinsey has published a great article on this that outlines some of the research behind the need for sleep.\u00a0 Among other things the article highlights that:<\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"infographic\">Scientists have found that sleep deprivation impairs this ability to focus attention selectively. Research shows that after roughly 17 to 19 hours of wakefulness (let\u2019s say at 11 PM or 1 AM for someone who got up at 6 AM), individual performance on a range of tasks is equivalent to that of a person with a blood-alcohol level of 0.05 percent. That\u2019s the legal drinking limit in many countries. After roughly 20 hours of wakefulness (2 AM), this same person\u2019s performance equals that of someone with a blood-alcohol level of 0.1 percent, which meets the legal definition of drunkenness in the United States<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"infographic\">The infographic below is useful:<\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"main_0_ctl18_imgExhibitGraphic\" class=\" svg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/%7E\/media\/McKinsey\/Business%20Functions\/Organization\/Our%20Insights\/The%20organizational%20cost%20of%20insufficient%20sleep\/png_QWeb_Sleep_management_ex1.ashx\" alt=\"\" data-fallback=\"\/~\/media\/McKinsey\/Business Functions\/Organization\/Our Insights\/The organizational cost of insufficient sleep\/png_QWeb_Sleep_management_ex1.ashx\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"infographic\">You can read the full article here: http:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/organization\/our-insights\/the-organizational-cost-of-insufficient-sleep<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a young family and a sometimes-heavy travel schedule, I&#8217;ve always been mindful of the value of sleep.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a fan of an afternoon power-nap rather than a coffee, and believe in the power of uninterrupted sleep. McKinsey has published a great article on this that outlines some of the research behind the need for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sleep"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}