I think the other commenter is correct and you don't know as much about what you are talking about as you think. I'm not talking about small business CEOs that

I think the other commenter is correct and you don't know as much about what you are talking about as you think. I'm not talking about small business CEOs that answer to themselves. I'll talking about CEOs that answer to the board and shareholders. One of the reasons I turned that position down was watching my mentor and boss offering it having just spent a week away from home flying red eye flights to China and then Europe and then the Midwest and then back to Europe for various meetings and events. I hated having to do a flight every other week even. This guy was in the office before anyone else and left after most were gone. Would put in at least a 60 hour week and MAYBE 10-15 hours of that was stuff someone else couldn't have done just fine. We were constantly having to run interference to hide work from him so he'd finally take a bit of time for himself. Yes, I think a much better infrastructure would have had him working 15 hours a week on what only he could do, and the rest of the time for family. But that's not what the reality was, and I saw that workaholism among most of the F500 C-levels I encountered, from the ones that were good, to the ones that had five great faking it. You simply can't hold one of those positions not being like that, and I am skeptical it is as much because of the workload as the work culture.