About The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
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.
Detail
Complete Title: The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 336
Publication Time: October 19, 1999
Publisher: Crown Currency
ISBN: 0385491743
ISBN13: 9780385491747
About Richard Koch
Richard Koch
Reviews The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
I give it five out of five but here’s the deal. I think the book itself follows the 80/20 rule. 20% of the book gives you 80% of the value. Do this: Read a short definition of the 80/20 rule on the we…
Quinn
Why You Should Read It: The principles in this book can literally add hours to your days and compound your happiness. It’s worth a look. What’s more important than having time?Average Read Time: 4…
Scott Dinsmore
I get it. 80% results from 20% effort. I got it before reading this book. Nothing new was shared, there’s not really much more to it than that.I read 100 pages of un-credited examples, made up company…
Ben
This book is a truly enlightening and motivating look at productivity, time management, and happiness. It shows how to apply the 80/20 Principle to your personal and professional life in order to work…
C
There’s a good side to this book and there’s a bad side to this book. Good side first. Ever since reading the book I’ve put 80/20 thinking to use, that is to say that cause and effect are rarely linke…
Mike
For those proclaiming this book to be life-saver, you will be in for a shock to know that what this book expounds is but only one among gazillion other data analysis methods. Let me explain, there is…
Vijai
Good, could have been alot shorter. Meh.Worth rereadingQuotes:”The 80/20 Principle asserts that a minority of cause, input, or effort usually lead to a majority of the results, outputs, or rewards.””T…
Nicholas
Unfortunately an illustration of its own principle: 20% valuable content with a lot of padding and assumptions.Kudos to Koch for brave honesty in the end section discussing critiques of the original e…
Dinah
I’ve already studied the 80/20 principle at university, so unfortunately nothing in this book is new to me.”Usually 80% of the results come from 20% of the effort.”…