Are you rolling your eyes? Does this sound overbearing? It's simpler than you think. What's really necessary?

Just one hour every Monday morning. Here's Cal:

And he's right. Research shows you spend your time more wisely when you follow a plan .

Via What the Most Successful People Do at Work: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Career :

Preliminary analysis from CEOs in India found that a firm's sales increased as the CEO worked more hours. But more intriguingly, the correlation between CEO time use and output was driven entirely by hours spent in planned activities. Planning doesn't have to mean that the hours are spent in meetings, though meetings with employees were correlated with higher sales; it's just that CEO time is a limited and valuable resource, and planning how it should be allocated increases the chances that it's spent in productive ways.