The 80/20 principle: The secret of achieving more with less - Richard Koch

The 80/20 principle

- the 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.

At the heart of the 80/20 Principle is the counter intuitive yet prevalent fact - the profound imbalance, lopsidedness and lack of correspondence between effort and reward - what scientists call non-linearity. The universe is wonky, yet we still expect an equal ratio of cause to effect. When things don't work out this way, we often refuse to notice. Our blinkers subvert our effectiveness.

The 80/20 Principle can transform your life, your organization, our society: not applying a panacea, but by working with rather than against the grain of the universe.