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Idea
The most impactful question that you can ask in your job is: How much time do you spend on your top three most valuable activities in your job?
Here “valuable activities” refers to the value you create in your job, rather than what you value yourself. Every job has some output that is the beneficiary to others.
You can even look at your calendar last month and look at your calendar next month and come up with a percentage of your time that you’re spending on those three most valuable activities.
If you were to shift your time away from the least valuable to the most valuable activities, your performance would go way up.
Example
I was working with a top team in Silicon Valley. There were 10 managers around the table and