Focus

The impact you create is determined by the 80% of things you don't focus on.

1. 20% of your roadmap will drive 80% of the impact.
2. 80% of the value you track comes from just 20% of your metrics.
3. 20% of products in the portfolio will drive 80% of the company’s revenue.
4. 20% of your product proposal will create 80% of the clarity.
5. It will take 20% of the time to build 80% of the feature and the remaining 80% of the time to build the last 20%.
6. Just 20% of your product proposal will cause 80% of the disagreements.
7. 20% of your experiments will provide 80% of the learnings.
8. You will spend 80% of your time wondering whether you're on the right path.
9. Spending 20% of your time thinking about the GTM before building a feature will save you 80% of future pain.
10. 20% of your competencies will drive 80% of your job success.
11. 20% of your product's messaging will make or kill your product.
12. 20% of your decisions will drive 80% of your career trajectory.
13. 20% of your customers will account for 80% of your retention.
14. Investing 20% of your time upfront to define your product’s positioning will prevent 80% of stakeholder pushback.
15. 80% of the features in your product don’t contribute to its differentiation.
16. 20% of your team will be responsible for 80% of the efforts.
17. Fewer than 20% of people in a company truly understand what PMs do.
18. You can avoid building 80% of the wrong features just by spending 20% more time using your own product.
19. 80% of user confusion can be avoided if you optimize for clarity over subtlety.
20. 20% of your self-reflection leads to insights; the other 80% just leads to overthinking.