Insights for CEOs who want profitable growth

Practical frameworks and straight talk from Bill Canady — built for leaders who are done with complexity and ready to execute.

Insights for CEOs who want profitable growth

Practical frameworks and straight talk from Bill Canady — built for leaders who are done with complexity and ready to execute.

80/20 menu

Zero-up offers a robust menu of methods. Which one is best? The answer to this is entirely pragmatic. The right approach is the one that works for you, yielding the..

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What to do

Quad 1? You know what to with it. It’s your Fort. You need to hold the Fort—not at all costs, but at a rational cost. That means allocating as much..

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Thinking is Required

Quad 3 consists of B customers, customers who don’t make it into the top 20 percent, the A customers, who are responsible for some 80 percent of your net sales,..

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Make-Your-Customers-Happy

In 80/20 analysis, A customers get to be A customers because they buy A products. Conversely, A products get to be A products because your best customers (A customers) buy..

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protect the fort
Hold the fort has meant hang on, even if you have to whip all hell...

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Air traffic controller

The Federal Aviation Administration employs more than 14,000 air traffic controllers in the United States. Each day, some fraction of these people manage an average of 45,000 flights. This means..

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Clouds

When the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 Rule, whispers in your ear that roughly 20 percent of your customers are responsible for roughly 80 percent of your revenue, it’s time to..

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Taylor shoveling productivity

In 1898, thirteen years before he published his groundbreaking Principles of Scientific Management, productivity guru Frederick Winslow Taylor was hired by Bethlehem steel to improve the performance of the 600..

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80/20 Rule

Some mathematical ratios appear to have mystical powers or, at the very least, hold the key to powerful relationships in nature and beyond. In 2002, Mario Livio, an Israeli-American physicist..

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map and compass

I can tell you a lot about your business without you having to tell me a thing. Roughly 80 percent of your revenue comes from just the top 20 percent..

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Pareto

If this guy handed you his CV, you would find it very hard to believe. Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was born on July 15, 1848, in Paris, the son of..

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Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor, whose 1911 Principles of Scientific Management rationalized manual work processes to make them dramatically more productive, has been lauded by the likes of Peter Drucker as the..

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