The 80/20 principle : the secret of achieving more with less

The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving More with Less [Hardcover] Koch, Richard "The 80/20 Principle shows how you can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by concentrating on the all-important 20 percent.". "The pattern of predictable imbalance underlying the 80/20 Principle was first discovered a hundred years ago by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto while studying income and wealth patterns. But the pattern of "predictable imbalance," as he termed it, crops up throughout life. In The 80/20 Principle, Koch opens our eyes to the way the principle works through a wide range of examples in business, commerce, and virtually every aspect of our lives. For example, 20 percent of products account for 80 percent of sales and profits; similarly, 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues.". "By identifying and focusing on the 20 percent of our efforts that result in the huge bulk of our success, we can leverage our efforts to vastly increase our effectiveness. For we discover that little of what we do really counts. By concentrating on those things that do, we can transform our effectiveness in our jobs, our careers, our businesses, and our lives."--BOOK JACKET. This special 10th anniversary edition of the bestselling ""The 80/20"" principle contains an entirely new chapter 'The Yin and Yang of the Principle' in which Koch responds to the thousands of reader responses to the book - including a rap song! - and uses this new material to reach a new level of awareness and understanding of the true power of the principle. And it is powerful: the 80/20 principle - the fact that 80 per cent of results flow from 20 per cent of causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people and organisations. ""The 80/20 Principle"" shows how you can achie A beautiful view and a persuasive local prompted the Mole family's impulsive purchase of ""a tumbledown ruin on a hillside with no water, no electricity, no roof, no floor, no doors, no windows and twenty years of goat dung!"" John Mole tells of the back-breaking yet joyous labors of fixing up his own Arcadia and introduces a warm, generous and garrulous cast of characters. An Englishman and a Greek village bond over bottles of ouzo, whisky and wine, finding each other sometimes bizarre, often baffling yet always entertaining The 80/20 Principle - that 80 per cent of results flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is the one true principle of highly effective people and organizations. In one of the decade's most original, provocative and powerful books, The 80/20 Principle shows how you can achieve much more with much less effort, time and resources, simply by concentrating on the all-important 20 per cent The 80/20 principle - that 80 per cent of results flow from just 20 per cent of the causes - is a principle adopted by many effective people and organizations. This text aims to show how you can achieve more with less effort, time and resources, by concentrating on that 20 per cent. This volume explains the 80/20 rule, which has been validated by economists, mathematicians and business analysts, yet it remains strangely unnoticed. This book aims to make 80/20 accessible and usable to everyone to encourage effectiveness, success and happiness. The Pareto principle argues that 80% of results flow from 20% of the causes. How to achieve more with much less effort, time and resources by concentrating on the all-important 20% The 80/20 Principle can and should be used by every intelligent person in their daily life, by every organization, and by every social grouping and form of society.