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    How To Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone

    Thu, 05/17/2012 - 09:00 EDT - The Curious Capitalist
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    In her new book, Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow details her years-long research project with The Boston Consulting Group, an attempt to improve the work-life balance at the hard-driving firm with incremental but meaningful changes in attitude and behavior. It was a worthy goal, given that by most measures over-connectedness is a real [...]

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