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The 10% Rule Nobody Wants to Talk About
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Last year, talking with a big guy in a big company, he showed me their offices. “Look at all the meetings,” he said. “They’re working hard.” As a consultant now, I’m always curious and put into test what I’ve learned the hard way through the years. And let me tell you some data. Studies show that the average employee is only truly productive for about 60% of the workday. In office jobs that translates to roughly 2 hours and 53 minutes of focused work out of 8 hours. Same hours. Much less real output. More. Multiple research reports, including McKinsey and other analytics sources that steal you anytime that ask for a page more in their reports, consistently find that superior talent can be as much as 8× more productive than the average employee. The best performers contribute far more than you’d expect just by looking at hours logged. A statistical rule from bibliometrics (Price’s Law) suggests something deeper: About √n of contributors produce half of the actual output. Translated for not engineers If you have 100 people… Only about 10 are actually driving 50% of the measurable output. Con dos cojon€s… or with two eggs! Only in politics, where there is barely any output things are worse than this… So, next time that you brag about your team. Your office. Your views. Remember those numbers. 10% of people, 50% of the output. Real leaders don’t pay for hours... Up to you what to do with this info... but if I were you, I would look to the link below. PD 1: If you liked this email, don't keep it in secret and forward it to a friend. They will thank you enormously one day. PD 2: If somebody has sent you this email and you want to receive emails like this yourself, visit vicentevalencia.com PD 3: If you want unsubscribe, click the link below. |
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