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When the 80/20 Rule Fails: The Downside of Being Effective
Basically, the more you try to do, the less you actually accomplish.
Sean Covey • The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
As with other manifestations of the efficiency trap, freeing up time in this fashion backfires in terms of quantity, because the freed-up time just fills with more things you feel you have to do, and also in terms of quality, because in attempting to eliminate only the tedious experiences, we accidentally end up eliminating things we didn’t realize
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
When I teach leadership seminars, I always teach what’s known as the Pareto (80/20) Principle: In a nutshell, it says that if you focus your attention on the top 20 percent in anything you do, you will get an 80 percent return.
John C. Maxwell • The Complete 101 Collection: What Every Leader Needs to Know
The reason that the 80/20 Principle is so valuable is that it is counterintuitive. We tend to expect that all causes will have roughly the same significance. That all customers are equally valuable. That every bit of business, every product, and every dollar of sales revenue is as good as any other.