The L&O System for Product Managers

The L&O system is a system that I created and evolved actually from Elizabeth Grace Saunders I&O technique which I read about four years into my pm career. For product people and for many other folks who are in high leverage roles there are basically three types of tasks you could be doing. There are L tasks leveraged tasks those tasks give you 10x 100x of what you put into the task giving you or your company right? Then there are N tasks which is neutral tasks these tasks are essential tasks that you do where what ends up happening is you get the same amount back right)? And then there are O tasks which are overhead tasks which are tasks and time you spend where you are