Peter Linder argues that the 80/20 strategy lets data drown out the loudest voices in sales, product, and marketing. When you focus effort on what the numbers actually show, you stop chasing every opinion and start making decisions that stick.
I would choose 80/20 as a strategy because it gives you permission to focus by using data in place of interpretations. Generally speaking, sales has a voice, product has a voice, marketing has a voice, but if you let the voice become more important than what the data says, you oftentimes are influenced by the loudest voice. I want the data to be the loudest voice within our strategy and planning, Compared to who told me what. I would choose it because it allows me to focus, permission to be different, and using the data to drive decisions.
