The 29-Hour Work Day : A High Performer’s Guide to Leveraging Your EA

by Ethan Bull

You understand the value of time—otherwise the C-suite would have been out of reach. But are you doing everything you can to maximize your time?

It’s not enough to hire an executive assistant and hope for the best. They can be your project manager, personal assistant, and chief of staff—if you know how to cultivate a partnership.

In The 29-Hour Work Day, EA specialists and ProAssisting founders Ethan Bull and Stephanie Bull reveal their framework for building an alliance with the right EA to support your professional and personal growth. Their five performance multipliers show how to hire a trustworthy assistant, establish expectations, and set guidelines that will enable you both to accomplish goals. Letting go of control is hard, but with a strong support system, you gain the freedom to focus on the rest of your responsibilities. Learn how to communicate with your EA effectively, build a working relationship that endures, and find more hours in your day with this innovative approach to identifying your needs and gaining peace of mind.

Genres: Business

160 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 31, 2022

About the author

I am a co-founder of ProAssisting, a next-generation remote executive assistance firm for business owners and C-suite executives. With a background in hospitality and expertise in the EA space, I have held a variety of senior positions, including Director of Administrative Services and senior EA to the president and CEO at Rochester Regional Health.

Stephanie Bull is ProAssisting’s co-founder and the former EA for J. Crew’s CEO and the CEOs of two multibillion-dollar hedge funds. Before developing ProAssisting, Stephanie proved herself an expert in the field and a vital addition to the C-suite by fulfilling a variety of roles, including chief of staff, estate manager, and investment liaison.

Reviews

[Elizabeth Sanders · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was ok to read considering I don’t work but it has good information in it for if I ever go back to work. I do like reading books like this to share with my husband and it helps me sometimes because I know what my husband goes through

[Morgan Kowalski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Stephanie & Ethan are easy to read and a wealth of information around partnering with and maximizing your executive assistant's performance. Combined, the Bulls have over three decades of experience as executive assistants and provide strategies for empowering EAs to be performance multipliers and elevate the success of their principals. This book is directed toward both executives AND their assistants, but I would recommend it to anyone who owns their own business, operates within C suites, has direct reports, or is a direct report. Enjoy!