Whats 20% helped you most
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I have been putting at least 20% into dev/biz learning even when having full time employment. Sorta took a page from the 20% idea at Google and applied it to myself.
I have seen similar results, in capabilities and revenues (income). I advocate for it at places I contract, but, unfortunately, many never adopt and realize the long term gains.
So I would say, to answer your question, self/skill/career development has been the 20% with the best ROI
Maybe, somewhat to the opposite side (and morbidly), I have pondered as I make choices with my time, "is this something, when I'm on my death bed, that I will wish I spent more or less time doing?" So I stopped watching video based entertainment (tv, movies, Netflix, et al) and that may actually be far more significant of the choices, as it gave me the time to use for self improvement. Not sure where I'm going with this, food for thought anyhow.
I have seen similar results, in capabilities and revenues (income). I advocate for it at places I contract, but, unfortunately, many never adopt and realize the long term gains.
So I would say, to answer your question, self/skill/career development has been the 20% with the best ROI
Maybe, somewhat to the opposite side (and morbidly), I have pondered as I make choices with my time, "is this something, when I'm on my death bed, that I will wish I spent more or less time doing?" So I stopped watching video based entertainment (tv, movies, Netflix, et al) and that may actually be far more significant of the choices, as it gave me the time to use for self improvement. Not sure where I'm going with this, food for thought anyhow.
I feel like the 20% from google is very different to the 2080 rule / Pareto principle.
Oh, that hit deep: "is this something, when I'm on my death bed, that I will wish I spent more or less time doing?
I'm going to implement that into my life outside work.
Oh, that hit deep: "is this something, when I'm on my death bed, that I will wish I spent more or less time doing?
I'm going to implement that into my life outside work.
I'd like to preface this by saying that I was in charge of the business side of things and product design, but not development.
Looking back realised that my 20% was sales and lead gen: •Hiring Sales Development Representative to generate new leads. •Doing some lead gen myself. •Doing PPC based lead generation. •Looking for companies and targeting them personally.
If you guys also have good ideas on how I could generate more leads for our product that would be awesome https://www.parceltracker.com/internal-parcel-tracking
I want to move away from the PPC and paid acquisition channels!