Tasks to do at work
* Customer and other external meetings. Top priority, of course. And mostly on the road, anyway.
* Internal meetings. Some are a waste of time, but you’ve got to do staff meetings, business planning, periodic reviews, board meetings, and the like.
* Hallway meetings. For better or worse, sometimes where the real meeting happens, especially in small or dysfunctional companies.
* Editing non-critical documents and content. If they don’t require too much concentration.
* Budget planning. You can only get so much of this done on your own without input from managers and help from finance folks.
Tasks to do at home
* Presentations. You need peace and quiet, time to concentrate, and a clear head for new ideas.
* Business planning, strategizing. Ditto.
* Writing / editing critical documents. Like SEC docs; too tedious to do in interrupt mode.
* Employee reviews. Same goes for any annual or relatively rare and unusual task.
* Preparation for trips. When you travel a lot, as most executives do, you need prep time, usually the night before a big trip.