Bill CanadyCEO & Founder, The 80/20 Institute · Be a Great CEO: Learn how to Fix it, Grow it, & Sell it.

Numbers, Not Words: Leadership's Secret to Efficiency Unlocking Efficiency! #shorts

23 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, Bill Canady demonstrates a quick leadership exercise where participants are asked to respond with a numeric value rather than a sentence. He records each person's answer alongside their name, using a fictional company name "Powerband Parts" to maintain anonymity. The collected numbers represent percentages for different functional areas: Operations Scheduling (28%), Finance (22%), Engineering (19%). He also notes the lowest response in the room (18%), the highest response (41%), and calculates an overall average across all functions of roughly 27%. The segment emphasizes the efficiency of using concise numeric feedback to gauge team perspectives.

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Make them answer with a number, not a sentence, and write down what each one says with their name next to it in front of them. At Powerband Parts, now that's not its real name. I don't like giving real companies' names for obvious reasons. The answers were these: operations scheduling, 28%. Finance, 22%. Engineering, 19%. The lowest answer in the room was 18%, as I said earlier. The highest answer, 41%. The average across every function was about 27%.