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...industry handicappers had touted to win the weekend with a gross in the $20 million-plus range, just didn't have the legs to beat the spread. The new movie's intriguing premise - of a world in which people stay at home while their lifelike robots do all the work - virtually told audiences that this was one to catch, if at all, on DVD. And Willis, except for his fourth dip into the Die Hard franchise two years ago, hasn't come near blockbuster status in the past decade. Reports of friction between the star and his director, Jonathan Mostow...
Well, Harvard Business School leadership professor Leslie A. Perlow headed a study that reveals that less work can mean better work. What?? Time for some major disillusioning, after the jump...
...four-year study—the results of which will be published in the October issue of Harvard Business Review—members of twelve consulting teams at Boston Consulting Group had to take breaks during every work week. Not surprisingly, it was pretty difficult to force some of these individuals to relax: "we had to practically force some professionals" to get away from work, Perlow tells the Wall Street Journal...
...Blackberries, no work e-mails, nothing—for one evening every week after 6 p.m. At first, these people sort of freaked out. They had "tummy rumbles," which are "gut worries or concerns about their project," the WSJ reports. They felt like they should be doing something...well, productive, during these free evenings...
...results revealed that the experiment helped consultants "communicate better, share more personal information and forge closer relationships." Work quality and morale improved. You see, the experiment targeted "bad intensity"—that feeling that you can't get anything done if you're not spending all your time working, that you need to be constantly on go-mode to keep yourself caught...