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Use Deliberate Rest to Promote Creative Thinking

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Don't allow overwork and fatigue to stifle your creativity—and career.

In 2015, executives at Samsung Electronics saw a chance to beat Apple to market with its next generation of smartphone. Engineers and managers worked 80-hour weeks for months, sleeping under their desks, and released the Galaxy 7 before Apple's iPhone 7. But in their rushed, fatigued state, they missed a flaw that has led to exploding phones, a worldwide recall of a critical product, and billions of dollars lost

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