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Entrepreneur: Would an 80/20 mindset help you to stay focused on your

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strategic plan and spend less time chasing endless new opportunities?
Executive: Would an 80/20 mindset help you to maximize the return from
your limited resources?
Freelancer: Would an 80/20 mindset help you to focus on and service your
most important clients?
Student: Would an 80/20 mindset help you to identify the content that
matters most on a test?
Stay-at-Home Parent: Would an 80/20 mindset help you to manage the
household without losing your mind?
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ECRET #
10
Eighty percent of outcomes are generated by twenty percent of
activities.
What 20 percent of your time generates 80 percent of your value?
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CHAPTER #11
The “3 Harvard Questions” That Save 8
Hours a Week
Can three simple questions save you eight hours a week?
The Slacker Who Won a “Best Coder” Award
In January of 2013, several news outlets reported on the remarkable story of
Bob.
With Bob’s programming speed and code quality, his company named him
“Best Coder in the Building” and gave him an excellent performance review. He
was a model employee; in his mid-40s, Bob clocked in by nine each morning
and sent his boss a daily summary of his productivity before he left at five.
But if we had been able to secretly peek over Bob’s shoulder all day—to
discover how he spent his time—we would have seen something peculiar. On
Bob’s typical day, he would read Reddit and watch YouTube videos from about
9:00 to 11:30, which is when he would head out to his 90-minute lunch. Back at
1:00 p.m., Bob would then spend the next three and a half hours on Ebay,
Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. At 4:30, he would send a
report to his boss and go home—without writing a single line of code. The next
day would be the same.
How could this be? How could “Bob” be his company’s star programmer, yet
goof off all day?
It turns out that Bob was very smart.
Instead of asking, “How can I do this?”
He asked, “How can this get done?”
The answer, in Bob’s case, was that he outsourced his task—actually his job
—to a software development company in Shenyang, China. Bob’s company
gave him approximately $200,000 a year to do his work, and he in turn gave
$50,000 a year to a programmer in China to do it for him.

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For the longest time, Bob’s company marveled at his productivity and
quality, while he surfed the Internet eight hours a day.
Eventually Bob’s company noticed unusual server access from China, and
thinking they were being hacked, they stumbled on Bob’s brilliant scheme. They
were not amused. Bob was fired.
Research Says…
People who actively look for things to delegate report higher levels of productivity, happiness and
energy, and are less likely to feel “overworked and overwhelmed.”
(Source: The Kruse Group, 2015)
If I had been the CEO, I would have doubled Bob’s salary and made him the
CTO. That way he could have outsourced all the development work and saved
the company millions of dollars.
While Bob ultimately got fired for breaking company rules, we can learn a lot
from his approach to getting things done.