You can’t run a team at 7 a.m. if you can’t win the argument with your own alarm at 6.

Authority over other people rests on a base of ordinary self management that nobody else sees. It is hard to ask for effort you are visibly not producing, and people read that gap immediately, even when they are too polite to mention it. The alarm is not a moral test. It is the first moment of the day where you either do the agreed thing or start negotiating.

Decide the night before and take the negotiation out of the morning. Put the hard item first, before anything has been spent. If mornings genuinely do not suit you, build the same reliability somewhere else in the day.