Is a ceoabove the AI?
Below the line: work that can be generated. Above it: the objective, the authority to act, the evidence, and who owns the exception. This is the typical ceo week, split along that line. Yours will differ. That is the point of checking.
No link, or a private profile? instead.
70%
Above the AI
You hold the pen where it counts, with seventy percent of your week spent on genuine authority and strategic direction. The rest of your time is leaked into routine corporate maintenance that your team should be shielding you from.
Read as: someone who steers a mid-sized company and arbitrates internal disputes.
[ II ] The week, split
Above the line
70% of the week
Setting annual strategy and quarterly priorities
15%The view from thirty thousand feet is lovely until you have to write the slide deck.
Deciding budget trade-offs
15%Playing Solomon with departmental budgets is mostly about making everyone equally unhappy.
Representing the company to the board and key customers
20%The art of looking entirely in control while the engine room makes strange clanking noises.
Arbitrating disputes between departments
15%A surprising amount of executive authority is just adult babysitting.
Owning the final call on public crises
5%The buck stops here, usually with a very tense press release.
Below the line
30% of the week
Reviewing the monthly reporting pack
10%Nodding sagely at charts that could have been summarized in three bullet points.
Preparing board materials and slide decks
10%Aligning boxes on slides is an expensive way to spend a Thursday afternoon.
Sitting through status meetings
10%An hour of your life exchanged for updates that could have been a Slack message.
[ III ] Move the number
This number can move.
Hand over the preparation of board materials to your chief of staff or department heads. You should only be reviewing and signing off on the final narrative, not wrestling with formatting and initial drafts. This is the easiest way to reclaim ten percent of your week.
That is a build, not a discipline problem, and it does not need AI expertise in house: Above The AI brings the system, the person keeps the objective, the authority, the evidence and the exception.
[ IV ] Your number, portable
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