The half-hour habit these three CEOs swear makes them sharper

Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Twenty years ago, Jo Horgan, the chief executive of cosmetics giant Mecca, realised something had to give. “I had my first child, and I was trying to juggle everything, and I was thinking, ‘This is hard.

I need to think outside the square here and make this manageable.’” Mecca now has more than 100 stores, and with a combined wealth of $812 million, Horgan and her husband and business partner Peter Wetenhall have a place on the Financial Review Rich List . But two decades ago, the company – and Horgan’s newborn – were in their respective infancy.

She was feeling overwhelmed. Copy link Copied Copy link Copied Subscribe to gift this article Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Already a subscriber? Login Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.

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