Rakesh Khurana

These companies have assets, customers.

How can one individual matter so much? So some colleagues of mine and I decided to do some empirical research.

We looked at data of all publicly listed companies over a 20-year period.

And what we found is that macroeconomic effects, things that affect companies' across the entire economy in any given year, affect about 5% of performance over a 20-year period.

There are tricks that you can do to make sure that you actually get thinking time because it's the one thing that CEOs need and often get squeezed out of their life.

The third thing is that it's easy if you're not careful.

One of my colleagues says that if CEOs are not careful, they can become like F1 car drivers and home can become the pit stop.

where they measure their time at home by how short it can be, how much it refuels them, rather than recognizing that their family needs attention and time too, and they themselves are human.