Insights:

1. If you do the top 20 percent of items on your to-do list, it will yield 80 percent of the return on your efforts.

Principles:

1. Prioritise the things that yield high return.
2. Stay in areas of strength and out of areas of weakness.
3. Assign tasks to people in their areas of strength.
4. When deciding tasks to prioritise ask the following questions: (1) What must I do? (2) What provides the greatest return? (3) What is most rewarding?