The Ellevate chair and former Citigroup CFO wrote in a LinkedIn post that she's never more productive than she is at 4 a.m. "I brew a cup of coffee, I keep the lights pretty low, I sometimes light a fire in the fireplace, and I let my daughter’s cat sleep next to my computer," she writes in a LinkedIn post.
That's when her mind is clearest, she explains, since she's not yet caught up in the day's internal conversations. Perhaps not unrelatedly, it's also when she finds she's the most creative. "It is at this time of day that I often have a rush of ideas (some of them actually good)."