"What time do CEOs wake up?"

So we've discerned two attributes necessary for every world-beating, millions-making CEO: he or she must own both an alarm clock and a telephone.

 

It's a trick question. CEOs never go to sleep because money never sleeps, pal.

 

Oh for fuck's sake, I get up between 4 and 4:30. BFD. Getting up at 6:20 is fucking sleeping in for me. Alot of people do. Go jogging around your neighborhood at 5:00am. You'll see plenty of people up.

Their schedule sounds like a donut shop owner or other small business owner. Substitute "emails" for "customer sales at the register".

This deification of CEOs is a crack up.

 

4:30 am on gym days. 5:15 on workdays. I'm usually at work by 6:45. I usually don't leave until 5 (even though my workday is "officially" over at 2:30) and then I do a few hours of work at home after my kids get to bed.

I am of course one of those lazy, tenured teachers mailing it in until pension time.

 

Roughly 50% or more of the people in my neighborhood are awake when I leave the house at 5:25 a.m. each morning. There's generally a handful of people out walking their dogs or jogging. But that's because, as Dick noted above, I live in an area with a TON of people who commute into DC, which I do myself. You either leave early and have a half-decent commute or sleep in and end up murdering someone.

The slug lines at my commuter lot (five or six different lines) are 20-30 deep by 5:45 a.m. I went in late one time and stopped to pick up a couple riders at 7:30 a.m. It was damn near empty.

 

I want to be the CEO who gets to work 180 days a year.

 

Shit.
Anybody with school-age kids and a full time job is prolly up before 5.

 

I think if you were to do a survey of successful people, the No. 1 thing you'd find is the ability of those people to get by without a lot of sleep at night. Like four hours or less.

 

Forget waking up. I want to know when a CEO takes a dump. I'd like to think a Super CEO is so organized and efficient he's got the timing down to right before his shower so he can stay fresh all day long.

 

I'll bet high-powered execs aren't lounging on the crapper, reading the SI.
Get in, get it out, get off and get going.

 

I wonder what time former Bear Stearns CEO Jimmy Cayne would wake up after a night of smoking pot and playing bridge.

 

An underling sprays their Blackberry with Lysol every morning.