Leadership Unlocked: The Operating System Every Executive Leader Needs to Delegate Effectively & Foster Accountability So You Can Stop Managing Alone and Start Leading a Team Again This Is How Top-Performing CEOs Manage Their Time & Calendar - E39
Dec 23, 2025
Discover how a chaotic calendar can impact an organization's culture. A three-level system for effective time management is introduced, emphasizing annual anchors, themed days to reduce context switching, and protecting transitions. Learn from a case study of a CEO who transformed his schedule from reactive to intentional. Dusty shares personal insights on time management and offers practical strategies to help leaders reclaim their calendars and lead with purpose. This insightful discussion redefines time as a crucial leadership tool.
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CEO Who Couldn’t Lead His Time
- Dusty told a CEO bluntly that he didn't have time to lead because his schedule was reactive and chaotic.
- That realization revealed the CEO's chaos had become the company's culture and prompted change.
Calendar As Leadership Signal
- Your calendar is a teaching mechanism that shows what leadership values you model to the team.
- If you constantly operate reactively, you teach that intentionality and planning are optional.
CEOs Rarely Spend Most Time On Strategy
- CEO time studies show only about 43% of time advances strategy, with some as low as 14%.
- That gap means many leaders spend most of their time on work they were not hired to do.