Act Like The CEO Today By Applying The 30:30:30:10 Rule

Your first priority in any job is to deliver on your specific responsibilities and objectives. Then comes a massive – yet often overlooked – opportunity to mark yourself out as a future leader. If you can do your basic job well in just 30% of your allotted working hours, then that frees up the rest for the real work.

Dedicate 30% of your remaining time to deepening relationships with your peers, and connecting with and working with the leaders in your organization. Then, critically, you can spend 30% of your time with the CEO’s hat on – thinking about future growth opportunities, and how you could take the company and the CEO to the next level. That still leaves 10% of your working life to have fun!

“My philosophy in life is the 30/30/30/10 rule. I’ve always believed that if you earn 100 dollars, you’ve got to pay taxes [of] 30 percent, you’ve got cost of living [which is] 30 percent, you’ve got to save 30 percent, and you have ten percent left. That ten percent left is your slush fund, your fun money, because you’ve got to reward yourself every now and then for the efforts you put out in life. It could be going and buying yourself a nice blouse, or a nice suit. I think self-reward is a good reward, so that’s my 30/30/30/10 rule. I still apply it to this day, and it’s worked very, very well for me.” - A savvy entrepreneur Greg Norman