cultural differences. Knowledge industries present unique leadership challenges
overworked.
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that energy is a key factor in their
ability to complete tasks on tough
schedules.
Most
top
corporate
leaders work 80 to 100 hours a
week, and a lot of them have
found that regimens that allow
them to refuel and refresh make it
possible for them to keep up the
pace.
Carlos Ghosn, who’s currently
president of Renault and CEO of
Nissan, believes in regular respites
from his work-week routine. “I don’t
bring my work home. I play with my
four children and spend time with
my family on weekends,” says
Ghosn. “I come up with good
ideas as a result of becoming
stronger after being recharged.”
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer admits
that “I can get by on four to six
hours of sleep,” but she also takes
a weeklong vacation three times a
year. Global HR consultant Robert
Freedman devotes two minutes
every
morning
to
doodling on
napkins. Not only does it give him
a chance to meditate, but he’s also
thinking about publishing both his
doodles and his meditations in a
coffee-table book.
Many leaders report that playing
racquetball,
running
marathons,
practicing yoga, or just getting
regular exercise helps them to
recover
from
overwork.
Hank
Greenberg, who’s currently CEO of
the financial-services firm C. V. Starr
& Co., plays tennis for most of the
year and skis in the winter months.
“I’m addicted to exercise,” he says,
because it “unwinds me.” Max
Levchin, founder of Slide, which makes widgets for social-networking sites,
prefers “80 or 90 hard miles on a road bike … starting early on Saturday
mornings.” Eighty-eight-year-old Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone rises at 5 a.m.
and hits both the exercise bike and treadmill before the markets open. (Redstone
also recommends “lots of fish and plenty of antioxidants.”) Finally, Strauss Zelnick,
CEO and chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, is really serious about
exercise: he takes a weekly exercise class at a gym, works with a personal
trainer once or twice a week, cycles with friends for an hour three times a week,
and lifts weights two or three times a week.
ZUMA
Press,
Inc./
Alamy
Carlos Ghosn is CEO of Nissan/Renault. He uses a variety of strategies to
keep his life in balance while leading a major international automobile
company.
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