In this article, you will learn how the CEOs of large companies use their time. And with that knowledge, you will know how to manage time like the best CEOs
CEOs (chief executive officers) are the main heads of companies. In large companies, the privileged ones who hold this position have extensive experience and have stood out for thinking differently and achieving success in their former positions and companies.
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Steve Jobs (Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Indra Nooyi (PepsiCo), are just a few examples of CEOs who have left their mark for their work. Not in vain are they part of the most powerful men and women in the world.
Its importance is reflected in salaries. The difference between your salary and that of an average employee can be between 9 to more than 500 times! According to reports from the PayScale and Glassdoor portals.
The educational backgrounds, races, and ages of CEOs typically vary, but they tend to share one thing in common: vision.
They can project where it is best for the company to go, choose and locate people who are going to support them from different areas; and they know very well how to manage time.
Whether we start our ventures to make money or to follow a passion; there are some things we need to know about the use of time if we want to follow in his footsteps.
The Domo company, whose platform facilitates business administration, was in charge of interviewing 256 CEOs and found the following trends on how to manage time like the best CEOs:
How to manage time like the best CEOs.
What time do they get up?
- According to age, on average, these characteristics are presented:
- Before 30: They get up at 6:40am and go to bed at 11:40pm.
- Between 30 and 39: They get up at 6:10am and go to bed at 11:00pm.
- Between 40 and 65: They get up at 5:50am and go to bed at 11:00pm.
- After 65: They get up at 5:20am and go to bed at 10:45pm.
80% get up before 6am and only 3% after 8am and although they generally go to bed before midnight, 8% do so after 1am.
How they distribute 24 hours a day.
- On average, they distribute their 24 hours (in a business day) as follows:
- 9.58 hours working.
- 6.78 hours sleeping.
- 1.2 hours updating (news).
- 0.96 hours on social networks.
- 2.16 hours sharing with his family.
- 0.96 hours watching TV or movies.
- 1.4 hours feeding.
- 0.96 hours exercising.
They work 57.8 hours a week and between 10 and 11 hours a day. That’s 10 hours more than the average employee!
Other curiosities.
- 69% take less than 20 days of vacation per year.
For Mark Zuckerberg, work is never done since you can’t disconnect. His mission is to connect the world to better serve the community, and he spends much of his time outside of work figuring out how to do it.
- On average, they spend 2 hours and 25 minutes in meetings a day. Of which 37% are with executives, 20% with clients and 15% with prospects.
- 21.2% of their working time is spent alone.
Conclusion.
If we want to be successful we must spend large amounts of time; It’s that simple. The point is that if we feel passionate about what we do, and we understand how to manage time; everything will go well.
We hope this information will be of great help to you 🙂
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