What’s your Executive Operating Index?

Fifteen questions, about five minutes. You’ll get your score immediately — no email needed to see it.

This measures the four components that determine what a senior leader actually produces: what reaches you, where your attention goes, how decisions clear, and what leaves your desk.

Answer quickly. Your first instinct is more accurate than a considered answer here.

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Executive Operating Index

That’s your score. Here’s what’s behind it.

A few quick details and we’ll show you the full breakdown — which component is your constraint, what it means, and how you compare to leaders in similar roles.

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Your role

Time in this role

Company size

What you run

Direct reports

Support you have

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Optional · 5 questions

Before your breakdown — five optional questions.

These feed an ongoing study of how senior leaders actually operate. They’re genuinely optional, and your breakdown is one click away either way.

Have you ever tried to change how you work — and had it revert?

Have you ever paid for help with any of this? (select all that apply)

When your time goes to the wrong things, what does it actually cost?

If you could fix one thing about how you operate, what would it be?

If there were a way to fix it, when would you want to start?

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Executive Operating Index

How you compare

Measure	You	Typical
Time on your top three priorities	—	15%
Meeting hours per week	—	22
Uninterrupted 2+ hour blocks per week	—	1

Reference figures are directional, drawn from executive operating research in progress. They’ll be replaced with real medians as the dataset grows.

One honest caveat

This measures what you believe about your operating system. That’s a real signal — but it’s self-report, and the gap between perception and actual calendar data typically runs 15 to 25 points.

That isn’t a failure of honesty. Almost nobody has an accurate model of where their own week goes, because nobody is ever shown the data.

Talk through your results with me Read more on your constraint

A 30-minute session, free while I’m building this. No pitch — I’ll walk you through what your scores suggest and what I’d look at first.