Senior leadership of a company is there to be in the service of the individual contributors. One of the prerogatives of the leadership is that leadership gets t

Senior leadership of a company is there to be in the service of the individual contributors. One of the prerogatives of the leadership is that leadership gets to define how that service is delivered to the ICs. As CTO, you get to set the communications culture of your team. You should announce that you will check your slack notifications once every two hours and no more. Anything more urgent - come to my desk. Anything less urgent - schedule a meeting for tomorrow. If people start abusing the “come over to my desk” loophole, start explaining to people what urgent means.