Nike CEO John Donahoe on how he manages sleep health in a hectic life
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For leaders in corporate America, sleep is often the rare luxury they don't have and can't buy. Success, especially early success, rarely comes without pulling some all-nighters, but among the market's most well-known leaders, there is recognition that burning the midnight oil is not a smart long-term strategy for productivity. "I've tried to sleep less, but even though I'm awake more hours, I get less done. And the brain pain level is bad if I get less than six hours of sleep per night," Elon Musk said in a recent interview with CNBC's David Faber. "I knew I wasn't as sharp when I was operating mostly on caffeine and adrenaline, but I was obsessed with work," Bill Gates said in a blog post back in 2019. Nike CEO John Donahoe leads a hectic life, and deals with a wide range of issues, those both predictable, such as managing margins for a Wall Street quick to sour on any signs of financial challenges, to the geopolitics o