3 Steps To Finding The All-Important '20 Percent' That Will Skyrocket Your Business's Success - Jaleh Bisharat

It's an inconvenient truth. There's a lot of work happening out there that doesn't drive business-changing results. Think of everything you did over the past year. How much of it significantly moved the needle? If there's one thing I've learned over my long career as an executive at companies like Amazon, OpenTable, and Upwork, it's that the 80-20 rule applies to business. In other words, 80 percent of the results come from 20 percent of the initiatives.
So why don't more people focus maniacally on the 20 percent?
Well, we like to be busy - and even show other people how fast we're moving.

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