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HBR Guide to Remote Work
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HBR Guide to Remote Work

by Harvard Business Review
February 2021
Beginner
198 pages
3h 31m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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CHAPTER 11

Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure

by Shawn Achor and Michelle Gielan

As constant travelers and parents of a two-year-old, we sometimes fantasize about how much work we can do when one of us gets on a plane, undistracted by phones, friends, and Finding Nemo. We race to get all our groundwork done: packing, going through TSA, doing a last-minute work call, calling each other, boarding the plane. Then, when we try to have that amazing work session in flight, we get nothing done. Even worse, after refreshing our email or reading the same studies over and over, we are too exhausted when we land to soldier on with the emails that have inevitably piled up.

Why should flying deplete us? We’re just sitting there doing ...

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ISBN: 9781647820534