Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
by Greg McKeown · 14 Apr 2014 · 202pp · 62,199 words
for something better. We can do the same with other choices—whether big or small, significant or trivial—in every area of our lives. The 90 Percent Rule Recently, a colleague and I were working to select twenty-four people from a pool of almost one hundred applicants to our “Design Your Life
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—that is, a 7 or an 8—then the answer should be a no. It was so liberating. You can think of this as the 90 Percent Rule, and it’s one you can apply to just about every decision or dilemma. As you evaluate an option, think about the single most important
Prisoner's Dilemma: John Von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb
by William Poundstone · 2 Jan 1993 · 323pp · 100,772 words
defuses echo effects. Defections volley back and forth like the ball in a Ping-Pong game until one strategy misses a defection because of the 90 percent rule. Then both return to mutual cooperation. A strategy like 90 PERCENT TIT FOR TAT is useful in an uncertain environment—one where information about the
Rethinking Money: How New Currencies Turn Scarcity Into Prosperity
by Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne · 4 Feb 2013
exact percentages also vary with the kind of deposit made: The longer the term of the deposit, the lower the percentage of “reserves” required. The 90 percent rule of this example, enabling a “multiplier” of about nine to one, is an illustrative average. 2. Emeka Chiakwelu, “Nigeria Payment of Foreign Debt: The Largest
Not Working: Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?
by David G. Blanchflower · 12 Apr 2021 · 566pp · 160,453 words
what the debt is used for, rather than its size. We also know that countries with high debt-to-GDP ratios can grow and the 90 percent rule has been debunked by Thomas Herndon. Consumption bad, investment good. There are many worthwhile projects that can be started, not least roads and bridges and
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by Priya Parker · 14 May 2018 · 301pp · 90,362 words
hosting Barrett all the way to the actual gathering. And that how they hosted him would shape how he showed up to the gathering. The 90 percent rule A colleague in the conflict-resolution field taught me a principle I have never forgotten: 90 percent of what makes a gathering successful is put
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The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future
by Sebastian Mallaby · 1 Feb 2022 · 935pp · 197,338 words
aimed to comprehend entrepreneurs so thoroughly that they could complete their sentences and predict the next slide in their pitches. They spoke internally of the “90 percent rule.” An Accel investor should know 90 percent of what founders are going to say before they open their mouths to say it.[18] Accel’s
The Economists' Hour: How the False Prophets of Free Markets Fractured Our Society
by Binyamin Appelbaum · 4 Sep 2019 · 614pp · 174,226 words
a nation’s annual economic output, growth declined.7 The European Commission’s head of economic and monetary affairs, Olli Rehn, started talking about a “90-percent rule.” The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund called the 90 percent threshold “a good reference point.” Reinhart and Rogoff had made an important mistake