- Insight: 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
- Principle: Prioritise the things that yield high return.
- Principle: Stay in areas of strength and out of areas of weakness.
- Principle: Assign tasks to people in their areas of strength.
- Principle: 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?