Tactic 01
Kevin O'Leary, The Diary of a CEO
Run An 80/20 Signal-To-Noise Ratio
The play
Write down your must do tasks and sort each new demand as signal or noise.
Kevin O'Leary says
The key skill is figuring out, when something hits you during the day, whether it is signal or noise. Kevin still uses sticky notes on his mirror to write down the three things that have to get done. Steve Jobs ran at an 80 percent signal, 20 percent noise ratio. The ones that get down to a 50/50 signal noise ratio fail.
Try this
Tonight, write the few tasks that must happen tomorrow on a note where you will see it, and ask yourself all day whether new demands are signal or noise.