A strengths-based time management principle where individuals allocate 70% of their time to tasks that align with natural strengths and energize them, while 30% is spent on growth-oriented challenges. Also applies to work-life balance with 70% quality time for primary focus and 30% for wellbeing and flexibility.
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The 70/30 Principle, also known as Cochram's Law, is a time management strategy that emphasizes working from your natural strengths while maintaining space for growth and flexibility. The principle has multiple applications across work allocation, life balance, and capacity planning.
###Strengths-Based Allocation
Individuals should spend 70% of their time on tasks that align with their natural strengths and energize them—activities where they possess unconscious competence. When engaging tasks requiring these skills and aptitudes, you perform them with relative ease and they actually energize you. The remaining 30% consists of tasks that are more draining and not natural, and spending too much time in this zone could lead to burnout.
In a work-life balance context:
In project management and software development, teams plan to utilize only 70% of their total capacity for core projects each quarter, with the remaining 30% reserved for unexpected issues, cross-team assistance, and experimentation.