Many CEOs are overworked, not because they lack vision, but because they are holding on

Many CEOs are overworked, not because they lack vision, but because they are holding onMany CEOs are overworked, not because they lack vision, but because they are holding on

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Oluebube Ezeuko

• Apr 11

Many CEOs are overworked, not because they lack vision, but because they are holding on to tasks they should have delegated long ago.

If you want to grow, you must protect your time.

Here are 3 tasks every CEO should stop doing immediately:

Manual Scheduling: If you are still going back and forth trying to fix meeting times, you are wasting valuable leadership hours. Scheduling tools and delegated support exist for a reason. Your time should be spent on strategy, partnerships, and revenue decisions, not calendar coordination.

Basic Customer Replies: Answering every simple inquiry yourself may feel responsible, but it is not scalable. Frequently asked questions, confirmations, and routine responses can be handled efficiently by a trained support system. Your role is to oversee the experience, not manage every message.

Formatting Documents: Adjusting fonts, aligning pages, and polishing presentation layouts should not be on your priority list. These are execution tasks. A CEO should focus on content, direction, and decision making. The formatting can and should be delegated. No negotiation. Delegation is not laziness. It is leadership.

Growth happens when you shift from doing everything to directing everything. When you free yourself from low leverage tasks, you create space for innovation, clarity, and expansion.

Smart CEOs delegate. If you're ready to, let's discuss.

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Catalina Lizaso

• Sep 18

I've been working a lot lately, but not necessarily from my desk.

We've had family visiting this month, so I've spent a lot of my days showing them around, taking little trips, working from cafés, answering messages on trains, and squeezing work into whatever space I can find.

And honestly, I love that my work allows me to do that. Being able to move around, travel, spend time with family and still work from wherever I happen to be is one of the things I value most about working for myself.

But there's a bit of a contradiction in that flexibility that I've been feeling lately: the more freedom I have over where and when I work, the harder it can be to actually stop working.

There's always something I could do. One more email, one more thing to finish, one more hour I could squeeze in before going out or while I'm waiting for the train.

And sometimes I think the hardest part isn't having time off.

It's deciding that I'm actually off.

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• 2d

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