CEO advice: 3 steps to take an actual turn-it-off vacation

“I feel like I can’t take a vacation. I’m afraid they won’t step up and things will totally fall apart if I don’t check my email for a week.” 

A visibly overwhelmed CEO shared this with us during a pre-workshop strategy call. She added that her to-do list was so burdened by fire drills that the big-picture strategic projects had been on the backburner for months. She fielded a barrage of nonstop questions team members, she believed, should already have the answers to. 

Sound familiar?