Productivity

Question 1

Focus on High-Leverage Activities

Answer 1

Leverage should be the central, guiding metric that helps you determine where to focus your time.

Question 2

Law of Triviality

Answer 2

Members of an organisation give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.

Question 3

Makers vs Managers Schedule

Answer 3

When you’re operating on the maker’s schedule, meetings are a disaster.

Question 4

Murphy’s Law

Answer 4

Anything that can go wrong, will.

Question 5

Hofstadter’s Law

Answer 5

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

Question 6

Parkinson’s Law

Answer 6

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Question 7

Gate’s Law

Answer 7

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.