Mar 10 2009
Learning by focusing on high-leverage opportunity
A high-leverage opportunity is a situation whose potential value is much higher than the amount of resources/energy needed to seize it. When you are presented with a set of opportunities, the ones that require the lowest expenditure of resources to successfully generate the highest value are called the high leverage opportunities. The world’s greatest achievers have used high leverage opportunities strategies to learning. They have concentrated their learning in areas where they have passion, advantage, and rewards. They have used techniques to find and efficiently process knowledge. They have used methods to cut to the core of what is most important to their field. They have been able to envision opportunities and maximize their achievement by concentrating only on those with the greatest chance of making them successful.
Your Gateway Key to Success
The “great achievers”—the great leaders who knew where to focus their life work to achieve success. They focused on three basic factors:
where they had passion for their work
what they did far better than others
where there were potential rewards for their work.
The great achievers thus chose to work where their passions, their abilities, and their potential rewards were all high.
Three Important Questions
Some people and organizations choose where they search for opportunity by weighing available alternatives—as if they were solving problems. But the great achievers have taken a better approach, analyzing areas of opportunity and asking themselves:
What am I most passionate about?
What can I do far better than others?
What can bring me the highest rewards?
