9 CEOs tell us how they manage time

Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages of Inc. and Fast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you can sign up to get it yourself every Monday morning. Last week, Modern CEO explored the role of the chief executive officer, and we invited CEOs to let us know how they spend their time. Across industries spanning retail, technology, healthcare, and professional services—and among leaders at private firms and large-cap public companies—our CEO respondents’ schedules reflect a high prioritization of their direct reports, their senior leaders, and their customers. Nine CEOs offered us a self-reported glimpse into their calendars. (A more rigorous approach, employed by Nitin Nohria and Michael Porter of Harvard Business School for their groundbreaking study on CEO time published in 2018, had executive assistants code their bosses’ time in 15-minute increments, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.) We gathered responses from Constantine Alexandrakis of Russell …

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