Tanzu Talk: Take Your Vacation
Beyond, you know, not working, there're good reasons to take vacation. Your brain will function better, your quality of work will be better, and all that digital transformation stuff will go better if you're not running at full capacity. Management can do a lot to encourage people to take vacation and get charged up for work. In this episode, I got over three reasons why you should take vacation and three ways executives can make sure you do. ---- Links Mentioned: - Burnout article - https://www.theregister.com/2018/06/18/burn_out_and_leave_patching_the_patcher/ - The Tanzu portfolio - https://tanzu.vmware.com/tanzu?utm_source=cote&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=tanzutalk ---- Chapters: 01:07 - The case for staff, i.e., “individual contributors.” 01:33 - The toxic hero cycle 02:37 - Stay relaxed for crisis time 04:27 - Vacation is part of your pay - don’t rip yourself off 05:18 - Blame the system, not yourself 07:19 - The case for managers 08:17 - Stressed people are poor innovators 09:14 - Executives should take lots of time off, and tell staff 10:48 - Give extra days off 11:19 - Don’t GA in November or December 12:54 - CTA time! 14:42 - The Return of Banana Boy