Eric Siu breaks down how to categorize your work by hourly value, from $10 to $10,000 per hour. Create an Excel sheet to sort tasks, offload the low-value ones at about 15% per quarter, and gradually shift toward only the highest-stakes work like major deals.
Make an Excel sheet, and then for each column you have $10, $100, $1,000 an hour, $10,000 an hour. Just define all the tasks that you're doing right now. And your goal is to offload all the $10 an hour tasks as quickly as possible. Every quarter you're offloading maybe 15% or so, and then maybe you're getting to $100 an hour tasks. And so then you're— all you're working on is a $10,000 an hour task, $100,000 an hour task, million dollar an hour task, like negotiating a deal or like some type of M&A thing. Mm-hmm.
