With our value equation in place, we’re now better equipped to address the question we raised at the end of the last chapter. If you want to perform at your best, you need to home in on a few key tasks and channel your efforts to perfect them—the “do less, then obsess” principle. But which activities warrant such focus? If you’re going to focus on a tiny set of activities, they’d better be the right ones. The answer is to redesign work so as to focus on activities that maximize value, as defined in the above value equation.
