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9 High Performing Laws

The document outlines nine high-performing principles that can enhance decision-making and efficiency. Key concepts include focusing on long-term vision, avoiding common pitfalls, and understanding the balance of effort versus reward. These laws emphasize simplicity, prioritization, and the importance of metrics in achieving success.

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9 High Performing Laws

The document outlines nine high-performing principles that can enhance decision-making and efficiency. Key concepts include focusing on long-term vision, avoiding common pitfalls, and understanding the balance of effort versus reward. These laws emphasize simplicity, prioritization, and the importance of metrics in achieving success.

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9 High Performing Laws That

No One Teaches You

@Josh Sanders
1. The North Star
Principle
“If you don’t know where you're going, you'll
never get there.”

Clarity is an advantage. Anchor to a


long-term vision with actions and
make every decision a step toward it

@Josh Sanders
2. The Law of Inversion
“Avoiding stupidity is easier than seeking
brilliance.”

Flip the problem: Instead of asking


“How do I succeed?” ask “How do I
fail?” Then avoid that.

@Josh Sanders
3. Parkinson’s Law
“Work expands to fill the time available for its
completion.”

Set aggressive deadlines, reduce


inefficiency, and beat procrastination by
constraining time instead of expanding
effort.
@Josh Sanders
4. Pareto Principle
(80/20 Rule)
“80% of outcomes come from 20% of inputs.”

Once you focus on the 20% of actions,


people, or efforts that create most of
the value, you stop wasting energy.

@Josh Sanders
5. The Peter Principle
“In a hierarchy, people rise to their level of
incompetence.”

If you want to rise and stay effective,


you must keep learning... titles don’t
equal capability.

@Josh Sanders
6. The Law of Diminishing
Returns
“Beyond a certain point, each additional unit
of input yields less and less output.”

Helps you avoid burnout and over-


investment. You learn to stop when
effort no longer equals reward

@Josh Sanders
7. Gall’s Law
“A complex system that works is invariably
found to have evolved from a simple system
that worked.”

Encourages starting simple and


embracing MVP-first thinking.
Complexity needs to emerge, not be
forced.

@Josh Sanders
8. Goodhart’s Law
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to
be a good measure.”

Avoid blindly optimising metrics (e.g.,


grades, followers, KPIs) and focus on
the real value behind them.

@Josh Sanders
9. The Principle of Least
Effort (Zipf’s Law)
“People will choose the path of least
resistance in any system.”

Design or build things that focus


on frictionless. Make the “right
action” the easy one.
@Josh Sanders
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