The 80/20 Principle - Richard Koch - Part 4

The 80/20 Principle - Richard Koch

2017 Reading Challenge - Day 89

  March 30, 2017 

Book 28 - The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
by Richard Koch (2008)
 Part 4 - pages 166-206
Reading Time - 1 hour

Here's a tidbit to get ahead in life. Focus on what you find easy and enjoy. Pursue the things where you are amazingly better than anyone else that that you enjoy the most. There's a theme like this that runs through the book - how to get ahead. How to become one of rich, ambitious elite. Given that this book was originally written in the 1990s and rejigged in 2008... it seems a bit out of date to me.

There was an interesting idea originally presented by a commander in the German Officer Corps. It's a chart based on Industriousness and Intelligence.

In terms of evaluating officer material, it is kind of eye-opening. On the other hand, the author of the 80/20 book tweaked the descriptions a bit. Stupid and Lazy were to be left alone. Stupid and Hard Working were to be fired. Lazy and Intelligent were General material. Intelligent and Hard Working were Staff Officer material.

I look at this and think of other organizations that this might apply to... like the Church and it's seminarians. Except I don't think the Stupid and Hard Working ones are eliminated... interesting though.

The author goes into a long chapter on how to achieve career success... find your niche and develop that. It's all about making money in the shortest amount of time as possible. Which is nice... but I'm not really wanting to be one of those elite super-achievers who hold 80% of the world's wealth. I'm thinking again, that this book is dated and out of touch with reality and the Millenials.