The other day a friend recommended I check out Empire Magazine’s coverage of Christopher Nolan’s Inception and his past filmography. It took me about an hour to get through the whole thing.

One thing to point out is that this man is an excellent at managing PR. He’s also super disciplined and focused. Working on only one movie at a time and that it’s the only way he functions. Too many people do too many things at the same time and don’t do them well.

In business consulting McKinsey emphasize the 80/20 Rule, the Foundation of which is on clarity of objective, focus on prime actions and solid execution.

The difficult part isn’t finding out what to do, rather understanding what NOT to do. Below are just some of the obvious gems on leadership and creativity we can all pull out from the article.