7 Books That Teach You The 80/20 Parts About Counterintuitive Things

Apr 23, 2022

Over the past 12 months, I have read 71 non-fiction books.

90% of them weren’t worth it.

Save yourself the time and just read these 7 🧵👇

The topic of metrics, measurement, outcomes thinking confounds even the smartest people.

They get stuck between no plans and hard-to-execute plans.

This book teaches you 80/20 techniques for measurement.

People misunderstand what business McKinsey is in. They’re in the business of persuasion.

This book teaches you specific methods to get buy-in in a corporate world.

If you’re going to play the game, play it like the best.

Most people have no freaking clue what a good strategy is, even after reading “Good Strategy/Bad Strategy”.

This tiny supplement to the classic “Good to Great” is the 80/20 distillation of the strategy as a flywheel idea.

You probably want answers in your life. Most people do.

This book explains the counter-intuitive idea that you need better questions so the answers would come easier [with many examples]

Product people are notorious for thinking good product will sell itself, or it’s not a good product.

Well, a bit of tough love: learning from the best in advertising & copywriting won’t hurt your lil’ app’s growth.

Everyone talks about OKRs. There’s more advice on OKRs than good OKRs.

This book is 10x more effective as it teaches you a different method that is 10x clearer and simpler.

After Elon Musk said that he applies first-principles thinking in his work, everyone forgot about intuition.

This book teaches you why & how intuition is massively underrated, and how real-life risk takers use it.

• How To Measure Anything

• The McKinsey Way

• Turning The Flywheel

• A More Beautiful Question

• Hey, Whipple, Squeeze This

• The 4 Disciplines of Execution

• Sources of Power