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Impact vs. Time: A Leader’s Guide to Slow Productivity

Practical guidance on how to slow down to enhance productivity

You usually have more than one night to get things done. Photo by Anderson W Rangel on Unsplash

 

 
Cal Newport
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 12:03
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The goal: Using proven strategies, cut the clutter to focus on core priorities.

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Submitted by knowwareman on Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:51

Apply the 4-50 Rule

I call it the 4-50 Rule. It's Pareto's rule squared.

4% of what you do creates over 50% of the results.

4% of the knowledge about any topic will give you over 50% of the benefit.

4% of any business causes over 50% of the mistakes, errors, waste, rework and lost profit.

So, you don't need to know everything to do anything. And you don't need to fix everything to get massive improvement, just the 4% that's most troublesome.

Stop majoring in minor things. Start minoring in major things. Use the 4-50 rule.

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