4. Perfection Is the Enemy

If you have 20 tasks you need done every day, how effective do you think your focus ability will be?

• You need to break it down to the essentials if you want to learn how to not get distracted.
• Focus on only doing 2-3 important tasks a day, b...

Being able to make decisions when you know you have imperfect data is so critical. I was always taught that “A good decision now is better than a perfect decision in two days.” Many people I know in business recoil at that statement. Many colleagues in graduate school had come from places where t...

Sometimes people tend to think that they need to perform many actions to succeed. It's preferable to focus your energy on a limited number of activities because you can't do everything due to constraints of time, money and other resources. 

I poured water from a giant pitcher into seven gla...