Business Insight Zone

Lately I’ve been trying to use the Pareto principle to carve down my work — i.e. to focus my efforts on the 20% of inputs that yield 80% of outputs.

At the moment, I’m staring at a loooooong list of potential blog topics that I’ve been accruing over the past several months. Rather than torture myself trying to write them all, I thought I’d put 15 of the also-ran topics here. Feel free to use them yourself — or to try to convince me that I should put them back on my list. ;)

1. How you can apply the principles of change management to your own working habits and career.
2. Using TweepSearch for prospecting and competitive intelligence. (It would build off of this.)
3. How companies can use the quest for energy efficiency to build better management habits.
4. How I find and use blog images.
5. When hubris runs afoul of the credit markets (with examples like this).
6. How to read a 10-K.
7. The paradox of openness vs. seclusion in business management.
8. Weekly state-of-the-economy analyses.
9. Moving yourself and your team into Covey’s Quadrant II. (It would follow up on this.)
10. New generations of semiconductor technology. This was my favorite beat in our Editorial department — it’s handled expertly now by Jeff Dorsch — and I wish I could keep up with it like I once did.
11. Reviews for several books on my shelf that I’ll probably never get to.
12. China’s solar-power industry.
13. More on stress in the workplace.
14. What neuroscience suggests about business management.
15. Deep-dish media history.

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