Josh Denning, Founder, Authority Factory

As a savvy business owner, you are, most likely, familiar with the 80/20 rule (or Pareto’s Law): in many cases, 80 percent of the outcomes can be attributed to 20 percent of the causes for a given event.

Popularized by Tim Ferriss is his bestselling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, the 80/20 rule can be applied to many areas of business: customer complaints, revenue, profits, and more.

But, for many business owners, there’s one crucial area of applying the 80/20 rule that often gets neglected:

Ted Frank, Principal Story Strategist, Backstories Studio

With attention spans continuing to shrink, one way we can make our 2017 presentations much more engaging is by taking cues from the place that can still captivate us for hours at a time: movies.

Movie-style storytelling is actually a perfect fit for corporate communication because it’s built on the same principles we’ve all been seeking from presentations all along: being simple, quick, visual and powerful. But the best news is that you can get a lot of movie power without even using video.