# Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time (Harvard Business Review)

Source: https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time
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## Summary

Advances in the science of stamina mean individuals, teams and whole organizations can significantly increase their capacity to get things done through straightforward interventions, rather than through ever longer hours that lead to burnout. Steve Wanner, a 37-year-old partner at Ernst & Young with four young children, illustrates the problem: when he was met a year earlier, he was working 12- to 14-hour days, felt perpetually exhausted, slept poorly, did not exercise, and seldom ate healthy meals.

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The science of stamina has advanced to the point where individuals, teams, and whole organizations can, with some straightforward interventions, significantly increase their capacity to get things done.

Greg Mably

As the demands of the workplace keep rising, many people respond by putting in ever longer hours, which inevitably leads to burnout that costs both the organization and the employee. Meanwhile,

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Steve Wanner is a highly respected 37-year-old partner at Ernst & Young, married with four young children. When we met him a year ago, he was working 12- to 14-hour days, felt perpetually exhausted, and found it difficult to fully engage with his family in the evenings, which left him feeling guilty and dissatisfied. He slept poorly, made no time to exercise, and seldom ate healthy meals, instead grabbing a bite to eat on the run or while working at his desk.

A version of this article appeared in the October 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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