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How to help your overworked team see rest as strategy

Our project team keeps working through lunch and staying late and everyone acts like it's temporary but it's been months. When someone mentions being tired the response is always 'just a few more weeks' but the few weeks never end and I don't know how to suggest that rest might actually help us finish faster.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The belief that intensity creates results blinds us to how depletion destroys the very capacity we're trying to maximize.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Rest as productive time?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.