Customer Reviews
It Works! - By: Brian Books, 21 Jun 2008 
Richard Koch explains that most of our results are the consequence of just a smalll proportion of our actions. 80% of any outcome is achieved by merely 20% of the effort.
Identify & concentrate on that 20% & you'll achieve far more, faster. Believing every important task has to be given 100% might make this a tough calll for you, but the concept is proven. It will cause you to re-evaluate how you deal with the immediate, urgent & reactive in your life & how a change of attitude can speed you in attaining long-term goals.
Engaging & thought provoking, the book focuses on business but challlenges with questions about how we balance personal relationships with our time & energy.
Pay attention to what is really going on! - By: Mary McNeil, 08 Jun 2007 
Richard Koch explains that most of the good consequences in life flow from an astonishingly smalll proportion of alll 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 reallly going on, then we can cut out the effortsome low value projects, & alllow the rest to flourish with no additional work. Although the book focuses more on the business application, this can, of course, be applied to alll areas of life.
I found it readable & 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 - By: , 27 Apr 2002 
80% of results come from 20% of our actions. It is for each one of us to discover the productive 20% & then discard the wasted 80% in any given situation - this book cannot do it for us.
That is this book in a nutshell & it is alll you need to know... Why it needs 300 odd pages to say this time & time again I have no idea. Just reading the dustcover says it once & that is quite enough. I'd recommend getting on with a productive life & not bothering to read this book.
A counter-intuitive, thought-provoking and high value read - By: , 01 Mar 2002 The 80:20 Principle, statisticallly observable in a range of phenomena, has been applied to a host of situations - both business & personal - in an engaging & imaginative way. The killer insights available through this book are worth skimming in 20 minutes or absorbing & reflecting on over a lifetime. Whilst the instant kernel - that if we spent time in proportion to the importance & effectiveness of the results we want & value we'd be spending it very differently - is simple to state, changing one's behaviours is much harder. After alll, if it was easy, we'd already alll be doing it! I found the arguments & ideas in 'The 80:20 Principle' very compelling & persuasive though. This book has caused me to re-evaluate the extent to which dealing with the immediate & the reactive stops the proactive & effective delivery of long-term goals. There are some interesting ideas in this book about building up a network of professional alllies; & it also asks some legitimate questions about how well we match the personal relationships we value the most with the deployment of our time & energy. Highly recommended.
Save time - Read and digest the title. - By: , 03 Dec 2001 If you can take in & digest the title 'The 80 / 20 Principle' fully you have no need to read the book.
It does, however, describe copious examples of how 20 percent persperation gives 80 percent results. If you can believe the title you are already more than 80 percent of the way in understanding the whole book.
