10 Mysterious Rules

十定律:

  • 80/20 Rule: roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes
  • Butterfly Effect: small initial differences may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time
  • Murphy’s Law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Be prepared, 做事要高调,做人要低调
  • Law of Attraction: focusing on positive or negative thoughts people can bring positive or negative experiences into their life
  • Parkinson’s law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Apply artificial limitations to your work in order to do it more efficiently. If work expands to fill the time allotted to it, make less time available to get more work done quicker.
  • Peter principle: Anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. Hence, every position in a given hierarchy will eventually be filled by employees who are incompetent to fulfill the job duties of their respective positions.
  • Herd mentality: The power of social pressure –> How people can be influenced by their peers to adopt certain behaviors on a largely emotional, rather than rational, basis. Hence, one must has he own judgment and know how to use the power of people to his advantage.
  • Broken window theory: suggests that policing methods that target minor crimes such as vandalism, public drinking and fare evasion help to create an atmosphere of order and lawfulness, thereby preventing more serious crimes. Hence it is important to ensure that small errors are cleaned up before it snowballs.
  • Wooden Barrel Theory: the capacity of a barrel is determined not by the longest wooden bars, but by the shortest. We are as good as our weaknesses, hence it is important to identify and work on them.
  • Pygmalion effect (Rosenthal effect): higher expectations lead to an increase in performance. Hold positive expectations about the performance of those they lead, performance improves.
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