• WELLNESS
tired.”( The most popular response, with 56 percent:
“ Because I like the taste.”)
DAYS 7-9: BARGAINING Big milestone. I’ m now one week into my misery, and by now I should be completely free of the withdrawal systems. This is the real baseline. This is the real me.
Yet I still don’ t feel anywhere near my peak. I’ m not sleeping better, I don’ t feel more relaxed, I still have trouble concentrating and I still crave my morning anchor.
On top of this, I begin to notice a new problem— I’ m struggling to fit in with group interactions. And maybe that’ s not surprising, as coffee seems to have a unique
ability to lubricate business conversations— like drinks on a first date.“ The phrase,‘ Let’ s grab a coffee and chat’ is a driver of a lot of new, collaborative activity,” Kuhl says.“ Having a coffee helps people communicate more effectively, and that always helps overcome challenges and facilitate new ideas.”
I’ m in Singapore for a two-day conference, and the event’ s emcee instructs everyone to take a coffee break. In a classic moment of networking, the crowd breaks into little clusters around the coffee carafes, people introduce themselves, pass the cream and sugar, and they make the small talk that could lead to big talk. I watch from the sidelines, unable to participate— the nerd at the school dance.
“ We know that coffee is important in the workplace,” says H. Rao Unnava, dean of UC Davis Graduate School of Management.“ Business leaders we know anecdotally have said,‘ We cannot imagine any deal going through if there wasn’ t coffee in the room.’”
Unnava and his wife, Vasu Unnava( also a professor with the Graduate School of Management) conducted research that suggests coffee meetings are actually more productive than the coffeeless alternatives. The professors studied two different groups of university students: one
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