United Airlines CEO says he sleeps 8 ½ hours a night and limits meetings to 'no more than 4 hours a day’
United CEO Scott Kirby says he makes sure to carve out time in his schedule to read and sleep.
EWR via Getty Images United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby doesn't have time for endless meetings.
Instead, he sleeps eight and a half hours a day and reads roughly 2 books a week.
Does his advice change how you would structure your day? Don't think that United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is going to sit through your slide deck.
"If you want to send a deck, send it to me in advance, and then we're just going to talk about it, but you're not going to read slides to me," Kirby told Semafor's "CEO Signal" podcast.
Kirby is fiercely protective of his schedule.
That's why he caps meetings at four hours per day, though he said he averages less.
It means keeping the meetings he does have quick and conversational.
"That gives me time to think," he said.
"The further you go in your career, certainly by the time you're the CEO, your job is not to work hard.
It's to think hard." In Kirby's schedule, "Sleep is the number one priority." He said he gets eight and a half hours a night.
He also has a rotating set of four workouts, but if he's traveling and his schedule is compressed, it's sleep that remains the key.
The United CEO said he wakes up at 5:30 am.
He doesn't need an alarm.
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