Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1695 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-13
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Review
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

Synopsis
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 achieve much more with much less effort, time and resources, simply by concentrating on that all-important 20 per cent. "The 80/20 Principle" is the key to controlling our lives. If we can latch on to the few powerful forces within and around us, we can leverage our efforts to multiply effectiveness. Most of what we do has trivial results. A little of what we do really matters. So if we focus on the latter, we can control events instead of being controlled by them, and achieve several times the results.

From the Publisher
The 80/20 Principle can provide a key to control our lives
The 80/20 Principle - that 80% of results come from 20% of the causes - has greatly influenced today's world: but this is the first book showing readers how to use it in a practical and systematic way. The pattern of predictable imbalance which was noted a century ago by Pareto crops up throughout life, and in The 80/20 Principle Richard Koch opens our eyes to the way the world really works. He reinforces the principle with many examples of it in operation - 20% of products account for 80% of profits, as do 20% of customers; 20% of motorists account for 80% of accidents...

Most things we do have trivial results, and only a little of what we do really matters. So if we focus on the latter, we can control events instead of being controlled by them - and achieve several times the results.

Customer Reviews

It Works!
Richard Koch explains that most of our results are the consequence of just a small proportion of our actions. 80% of any outcome is achieved by merely 20% of the effort.

Identify and concentrate on that 20% and you'll achieve far more, faster. Believing every important task has to be given 100% might make this a tough call for you, but the concept is proven. It will cause you to re-evaluate how you deal with the immediate, urgent and reactive in your life and how a change of attitude can speed you in attaining long-term goals.

Engaging and thought provoking, the book focuses on business but challenges with questions about how we balance personal relationships with our time and energy.

Pay attention to what is really going on!
Richard Koch explains that most of the good consequences in life flow from an astonishingly small proportion of all our efforts. All of the rest of our efforts - contrary to our expectations of fairness - are producing remarkably few results. In other words, 20% of our efforts are producing 80% of the good results.

If we start to pay attention to what is really going on, then we can cut out the effortsome low value projects, and allow the rest to flourish with no additional work. Although the book focuses more on the business application, this can, of course, be applied to all areas of life.

I found it readable and distinctly thought-provoking. Putting it into practice feels like it requires a degree of daring, particularly for those who believe that the good things in life have to be worked hard for. I'll own up to being one of them, but I'm working hard to get over that particular belief!

save 80% of your reading time - don't read this book
80% of results come from 20% of our actions. It is for each one of us to discover the productive 20% and then discard the wasted 80% in any given situation - this book cannot do it for us.
That is this book in a nutshell and it is all you need to know... Why it needs 300 odd pages to say this time and time again I have no idea. Just reading the dustcover says it once and that is quite enough. I'd recommend getting on with a productive life and not bothering to read this book.