The most productive insurance executives I have worked alongside are not the ones working the longest hours. They are the ones who have designed how they work as deliberately as they design their business strategies.
A few patterns appear consistently. They protect blocks of uninterrupted time for deep work -- strategic thinking, writing, complex decisions -- and they defend those blocks the same way they defend board time. They delegate decisions at the level where the information to make them actually lives, rather than routing everything upward. And they have a recovery practice -- exercise, reflection, time out of the business -- that they treat as non-negotiable rather than aspirational.
The compounding effect of these habits over a decade is enormous. An executive who does deep work for two focused hours a day produces more strategic output in a year than one who reacts to inputs for twelve hours a day.
Productivity is a leadership competency. It is worth developing as deliberately as technical expertise.
If your calendar does not have protected time for the work only you can do, it is probably full of work that someone else should be doing instead.
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