- Paperback: 277 pages
- Publisher: Broadway Business; Reprint edition (Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385491743
- ISBN-13: 978-0385491747
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.2 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 708,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The 80/20 principle is the cornerstone of results-based living. Read this book and use it. --Timothy Ferriss, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The 4-Hour Workweek
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How anyone can be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle--the well-known, unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts.
The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.
Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Although the 80/20 principle has long influenced today's business world, author Richard Koch reveals how the principle works and shows how we can use it in a systematic and practical way to vastly increase our effectiveness, and improve our careers and our companies.
The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what we spend our time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, we can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent, and transform our effectiveness in our jobs, our careers, our businesses, and our lives.
The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.
Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Although the 80/20 principle has long influenced today's business world, author Richard Koch reveals how the principle works and shows how we can use it in a systematic and practical way to vastly increase our effectiveness, and improve our careers and our companies.
The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what we spend our time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, we can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent, and transform our effectiveness in our jobs, our careers, our businesses, and our lives.
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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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I gave this book 5 stars not because it's brilliantly written but because it has the potential to change your life. It really has. The book itself proves the 80:20 rule - because it's very repetitive and could have been written in 20% of the space. But it has something very important to say in that 20%. I liked Koch's attempt to relate the 80:20 rule to your personal life - I'm certainly going to change some aspects of my personal life as a result. But be warned - in the wrong hands this book could be dangerous. You need a certain level of self-awareness before reading it or the advice that he provides could be seriously mis-used. So an important, potentially life altering book - that I highly recommend if your IQ can stand it!
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Eighty percent of the books I buy I fail to read.
This is one of the twenty percent of books that I own that will have a positive effect on my life and those around me. Richard Koch gives a great analysis of the simple rule, espoused by management consultants for years, that a small part of your effort causes a dissproportianate amount of effect.
The 80/20 principle is a great read for those of us who dont like to work too much, as it gives us the reason why we can still be so sucessfull. It will also be a gem for the overworked because it will show you why those around you who achieve without stress are managing to do it.
The 80/20 rule is nothing new to many of us. This book, however, opens the possibilities of its usage to the limits. It also provides a great link to Chaos theory and how the two philosophies are interdependent. It is a fantastic opportunity for anyone to embrace the idea that planning to succeed may not always involve maximising effort.
As a 80/20 practitioner for some while it has been a pleasure to see these ideas carefully scripted in an inspiring book.
Buy it now and do less and achieve more.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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I have always found the 80/20 principle to be a valuable starting point in finding ways to improve performance. What I liked about this book was that it drew out more of the implications of that principle than I had previously thought about. If you are not familiar with the principle, this will be a good introduction. If you are familiar, you should probably stick to the implications. The review of what you know may feel a trifle repetitive. Another suggestion is that if you keep repeating your focus on the top 20% in each situation, you will make your results geometrically better (more like 1 percent providing 95 percent). If you know people who are not familiar with the principle who are a bit, perhaps, disorganized, this book would be a good gift. Teach this to your children, and you will increase the likelihood that they will move out when they are grown, because they will be able to afford to.
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Simply Excellent!!!!
A very interesting book indeed - not because it is brilliantly written but because it applies 80/20 thinking outside of the normal narrow usage seen. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Russell3162001
Straightforward and entertaining
Straightforward and entertaining description of the Pareto Principle and its many applications.
Lots of interesting examples.
Very good fun. Read more
Lots of interesting examples.
Very good fun. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Peter W. Burden
Good Introduction and application of the 80/20 principle
This is a good book for anyone who has previously not encountered the 80/20 principle. Packed with plenty of examples to get the uninitated started. Read more
Published 12 months ago by M. Ahmed
Good Principle - Badly Written Book
The Pareto Principle or 80/20 Principle is interesting but all you need to read of this book is the front cover.
Published 15 months ago by James Bond
basic stuff
This book was just OK.
A lot of the content is basic stuff - like analyzing the different parts of your business to see what is profitable and what is not - duhhh. Read more
A lot of the content is basic stuff - like analyzing the different parts of your business to see what is profitable and what is not - duhhh. Read more
Published 16 months ago by jimbo
de ja vu
This book is very good, and in depth, but im sure 80% of the words in this book are saying 20% of the information. IT is so repetitive it is untrue. Read more
Published 18 months ago by lorddan01
A Great Guide for Focusing on What's Important
This book should be on everyone's "must read" list. I have always dealt badly with the ability to focus on what's giving me the most result for my efforts. Read more
Published 19 months ago by Scott Carter
Excellent
There are some additional reflections in this ten year update of the business classic, but nothing earth shattering, and I thought the part IV of the book from the original version... Read more
Published 22 months ago by A reader
repetitive but thats the genius of it
I picked up this book as a whim because I had some book tokens going spare and at first I struggled with it. Read more
Published on 12 Feb 2010 by Mr. M. T. Davies
Long and Boring
It is all explained in the title. In life, 80% of what you want is usually produced by 20% of effort put in. Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2009 by Mr. G. J. Farhead
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