How available should a CEO be to their organization day to day?

Winston Weinberg · Jan 19, 2026

Getting up early (around 4-4:30AM) to secure a couple of focused hours before the stream of Slacks and emails arrives has changed the trajectory of how the speaker operates his company more than anything else

Those quiet hours let you think about product and strategy before reactive communication takes over; it changed how he operates the company more than anything else

Scope: his own practice; keeps East Coast time because the company spans 60 countries

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Avishai Abrahami · Jul 13, 2026 · hedged

A nocturnal schedule (sleeping 5am–11:30am) is actually good for a CEO

It gives him roughly four uninterrupted hours to think, plan and do real work rather than being in meetings all day

Scope: framed as 'surprisingly as it might sound'

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Fabien Pinckaers · Feb 12, 2025

When a country or unit plateaus, the fix is usually to help the existing leaders through the next scaling stage rather than replace them

India's director had grown the business to 200 people and stalled there for seven years; Fabien relocated for a year, replaced nobody, and the team grew to 800 people and from 16 to ~800 new clients a month

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Avishai Abrahami · Jul 13, 2026

A CEO arriving late forces the organisation to mature because employees solve most problems themselves before he arrives

By the time he arrives most issues have resolved on their own, leaving only the genuinely hard interpersonal problems for him

5:11 Limited availability forces the team to solve problems itself