Nuno Matos swims. Leah Weckert has a “one hour a day, one day a week” no-work rule. Anthony Miller and Sukhinder Singh Cassidy take an early morning moment with a cup of coffee. Rob Scott hits the rowing machine – hard.

We asked our chief executives how they manage stress and came up with more than a dozen different strategies. A lot of them revolve around exercise – like Telstra CEO Vicki Brady’s early morning workouts and ANZ boss Matos’ swimming – but spending time with kids, family and friends, and consciously getting outside the corporate grind by meditating or doing Sudoku puzzles were also popular techniques.

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