Leader Schedules; 72% Meeting Time; 43% Priority Time; 3% Customer Time; ExO Course Next Week

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"…insights for scaleups"

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12-Year Study of CEO (Applies to all Leaders) Schedules — Harvard strategist Michael Porter and colleague Nitin Nohria recorded and analyzed the schedules of 27 CEOs over a period of 12 years (2006 – 2018). Notes this Fortune article:

It reinforces the idea of a #1 priority for each quarter and the importance of a leader aligning their daily activities around this priority i.e. Steve Jobs spending three hours each day for six-months working on his new retail concept. Please take 2 minutes to read more of the details.

61% Face-to-Face Time — the Fortune article summarized a much more in-depth HBR article. Noting that these CEOs spent 61% of their week in face-to-face meetings, Porter and Nohria note in HBR:

72% in Meetings — one key recommendation coming out of the study, given that 72% of these CEO's workweek was spent in 37 meetings lasting an average of an hour, is to cut the time of these meetings in half or more. Most meetings can accomplish as much or more in 30 minutes or even 15 minutes than they can in an hour so look at setting up much shorter meetings.

Only 3% of Week Spent with Customers — and the biggest reveal was that the CEOs were dismayed to find they only spent 3% of their week with customers – and agreed this was too low. Notes the HBR article:

There are many more insights about family, sleep, and alone time worth reviewing by all leaders. The HBR article will take you 7 minutes to read and digest, so maybe a good read for the weekend.

Fun Fact — yesterday the 10 millionth patent was issued to Raytheon for a process improving lasers. This Fortune article provides the details plus a look at the first patent signed by George Washington in 1790 and issued to Samuel Hopkins for improvements in "the making of pot ash and pearl ash." Yet the patent numbering system was reset in 1836, so there is a different patent #1! Worth 1 minute to see what it was for plus the new patent cover design.

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