My CEO Life

I often find myself sitting in a aluminum tube at 30,000 feet for hours on end. I do lots of long haul flying and constantly feel the need to make sure that i use the time alone to make great progress.

So what do i do – i split my time into 3 broad buckets

1. Email processing - i love to get through my emails. My constant objective is to get to zero emails in the inbox. I am getting very good at the short – one line – answer. The team knows when i am off the plane as they get bombarded with emails. However i always make sure that they are short, direct and have an outcome.
2. General reading – i always carry around 5 – 10 pieces of reading. They are combinations of magazines i like to read and articles printed from the internet. The objective here is to finish them and leave them on the plane. I dont do not read confidential stuff on planes – you just never know. I also have the habit of ripping great articles from the magazines, scanning them and sharing them with the team.
3. Podcasts - i always have an ipod with me loaded with the most recent podcasts that i love to listen to. i try to get through as many as possible so that i am up to date with what is happening around the world.

Oh well … back on a plane.

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