Day in the life.

• Author: Williams, Allison
• Position: NC TREND: Power player

How does the CEO of the country's largest electric utility spend her time? Carefully. Lynn Good takes a few minutes to talk time management.

The Duke Energy chief is one of 20 female CEOs in the S&P 500 and a member of an even more elite group of women who hold the dual role of CEO and chairman of the board. The Charlotte-based utility serves 20 million customers in the Carolinas, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.

ON LESSONS LEARNED

"I think throughout my career, I've had appreciation for the power of the people who you surround yourself with, but I've been reminded of that even more so in this role. There are 28,000 employees at Duke. If those employees are aligned around the same objectives, the same vision, the same focus on customers and safety and service and integrity, then we become a really powerful company."

MANAGING TIME

"I have a great team of people that surround me, that help me think about how to spend my time, how much internal, how much external, how much time with our board, with civic involvement. I got to every nuclear plant [11 units, all in the Carolinas] in the first year. I did a five-city tour last year in North Carolina.... I spend time with my staff [to] understand what they're working on, their priorities, if there's anything I can do to...