????企業(yè)高管精力旺盛、每天睡眠時(shí)間很少,，這樣的故事我們聽(tīng)得太多了?，斏?斯圖爾特自稱(chēng)每晚睡4小時(shí)，百事公司（PepsiCo）首席執(zhí)行官盧英德也一樣,。盧英德的前任雷孟夫一直以來(lái)差不多每晚都是11點(diǎn)左右入睡,，第二天一早5點(diǎn)左右就起床,，跑上4英里?！拔乙话愣妓?,、6個(gè)小時(shí)，”他在一次接受采訪時(shí)說(shuō),?！皼](méi)睡過(guò)更長(zhǎng)時(shí)間?！钡坪跻呀?jīng)足夠了：“大多時(shí)候,，我都不需要鬧鈴，自己就會(huì)醒來(lái),?！?/p>
????少睡點(diǎn)是成功的秘訣嗎？因?yàn)樗蒙倬涂梢蚤L(zhǎng)時(shí)間工作,，同時(shí)依然能夠保持個(gè)人生活,？
????也許吧,。Eos Sleep（前身即Manhattan Snoring and Sleep Center）的創(chuàng)始人,、睡眠專(zhuān)家戴維?沃爾皮稱(chēng)，成人通常每晚需要6-8小時(shí)的睡眠時(shí)間,。這意味著有些人,，像雷孟夫【現(xiàn)為維克森林大學(xué)（Wake Forest University）商學(xué)院院長(zhǎng)】，只睡6小時(shí)確實(shí)也可以,?！叭绻阋煌砩纤?小時(shí)，醒來(lái)時(shí)感覺(jué)休息好了,，整天也不累,，那就沒(méi)問(wèn)題，”他說(shuō),?！八卟蛔愕脑挘眢w自然會(huì)告訴你,?！?/p>
????好消息是什么？好消息就是,，就算你真的需要8小時(shí)睡眠,，很多雖然每天睡眠的時(shí)間達(dá)到了美國(guó)人的均水平【美國(guó)勞動(dòng)統(tǒng)計(jì)局（Bureau of Labor Statistics）的美國(guó)人時(shí)間利用調(diào)查顯示，美國(guó)人平均每天睡8.67個(gè)小時(shí)】,，但他們同樣找到了成功之道,。
????曼納?伊奧尼斯古經(jīng)營(yíng)著芝加哥一家數(shù)字營(yíng)銷(xiāo)公司Lightspan Digital,。作為一個(gè)企業(yè)家，她認(rèn)為自己應(yīng)該減少睡眠時(shí)間,，增加工作時(shí)間,。“不知怎么回事,，人們認(rèn)為不睡覺(jué)很了不起,，還喜歡到處吹噓，”她說(shuō),。但后來(lái),，“經(jīng)過(guò)一個(gè)無(wú)眠夜之后，我開(kāi)車(chē)出了個(gè)小事故,?！?/p>
????事故并不嚴(yán)重，“但浪費(fèi)了我很多時(shí)間”,。從此以后,，她一直堅(jiān)持良好的睡眠習(xí)慣，每晚11點(diǎn)上床,，早上7點(diǎn)起床,。“從此,，一切都不同了,，”她說(shuō)?！艾F(xiàn)在我可以完成更多的工作,，更容易下決斷，更容易達(dá)成業(yè)務(wù),。能跑完半程馬拉松,，能解決過(guò)去似乎不可能解決的問(wèn)題?！睋Q言之,，現(xiàn)在她能更好地利用時(shí)間，盡管她醒著的時(shí)間減少了,。
????簡(jiǎn)?格雷澤擁有一家員工100人的目錄公司QCI Direct,。她通常每晚10點(diǎn)半上床睡覺(jué)，早上6點(diǎn)半左右起床,。雖然臨睡前她總是忍不住想再多回一封郵件,，但“睡眠不足肯定沒(méi)法正常工作，也沒(méi)法領(lǐng)導(dǎo)一家公司,，”她說(shuō),?！皠傞_(kāi)始創(chuàng)業(yè)的時(shí)候，我確實(shí)嘗試過(guò)減少睡眠,，但很快就意識(shí)到,，這樣一來(lái)，到了下午會(huì)精力不支,?！?/p>
????那么，那些聲稱(chēng)只需睡4小時(shí)的人呢,？“全球有幾十億人,，肯定有只需要4小時(shí)睡眠的人，”沃爾皮說(shuō),?！暗麄冎皇菍儆谔乩,！?/p>
????要說(shuō)這些怪人都集中在了華爾街和財(cái)富500強(qiáng)公司的高管隊(duì)伍中,，那也不太可能。他說(shuō)：“我認(rèn)為這只是充好漢,?！碑?dāng)然，對(duì)于女性,，可能得換個(gè)說(shuō)法,。
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????Stories abound of business leaders who don't sleep much. Martha Stewart has claimed to sleep about four hours a night, as has Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo (PEP). Her predecessor, Steve Reinemund, has gotten up around 5 a.m. to run 4 miles most mornings of his life after going to bed around 11. "I sleep normally between five, six hours," he said in an interview. "I've never gotten more." But it seems to be enough: "Most of the time I don't wake up with an alarm."
????Is not needing much sleep a secret to success -- giving people a chance to work long hours and still have a life?
????Well, maybe. According to David Volpi, a sleep specialist and founder of Eos Sleep (formerly the Manhattan Snoring and Sleep Center), adults generally need six to eight hours a night. That means that some people, like Reinemund (now dean at the Wake Forest University Schools of Business), can do fine on just six hours. "If you get six hours a night and feel well-rested when you wake up and don't get tired throughout the day, that kind of tells you," he says. "Your body will tell you if you don't get enough sleep."
????The good news? If you do need eight hours, plenty of people have found ways to be successful and still sleep almost as much as the average American (who, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' American Time Use Survey, is clocking 8.67 hours of sleep on an average day).
????Mana Ionescu runs Lightspan Digital, a Chicago-based digital marketing company. As an entrepreneur, she thought she should sleep less and work more. "Somehow people find it heroic to not sleep and brag about it too," she says. But then "I got behind the wheel after a night without sleep and got into a fender bender."
????The accident wasn't major, "but I wasted many hours of my life as a result." She's practiced good sleep hygiene ever since, going to bed at 11 and waking up at 7. "Everything has changed," she says. "I am able to work more, decisions are easier to make, business is easier to close. I've been running half marathons and solved problems that before seemed almost impossible to solve." In other words, she's making better use of her hours, even if she's awake for fewer of them.
????Jane Glazer, who owns QCI Direct, a multi-title catalog firm with 100 employees, is usually in bed by 10:30 pm and up around 6:30 am. While there's always the temptation to answer one more email before bed, "you can't function and lead a company being sleep deprived," she says. "In the early years of my business, I did try to get by with less, but I quickly learned I would burn out by mid-afternoon."
????As for people who claim they only need four hours? "With the billions of people in the world, there are, I'm sure, people that only need four hours of sleep," Volpi says. "But that would be the exception to the rule."
????It's unlikely that these freaks of nature have all congregated on Wall Street and in the executive ranks of Fortune 500 companies. "I think it's just macho," he says. Or whatever the female version of macho is. |
