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The 80/20 Principle: Achieve More with Less: THE NEW 2022 EDITION OF THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER
The 80/20 Principle: Achieve More with Less: THE NEW 2022 EDITION OF THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER
Millions of highly effective people have become more successful by understanding the simple fact that 80% of your results come from 20% of your efforts. All you have to do is identify the 20 percent that leads to 80 percent. The 80/20 Principle shows you how.
The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what you spend your time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, you can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent. Discover how to identify the few methods that will lead to great results, and use them alone. Avoid hard work. Don't push water uphill. Be very selective in what you do. Have a great life.
80/20 is an essential tool for anyone who wants to succeed.
Be more effective with less effort by learning how to leverage the 80/20 principle.
Product details
- ASIN : B09Q63NN3Q
- Publisher : Nicholas Brealey Publishing (January 20, 2022)
- Publication date : January 20, 2022
- Language : English
- File size : 3084 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 446 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #337,513 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #244 in Time Management in Business
- #511 in Time Management (Books)
- #709 in Personal Success in Business
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WHAT IS 80/20 PRINCIPLE?
The 80/20 Principle says that the majority of your results or outputs will come from a minority of causes or inputs. The principle was discovered in 1897 by economist Vilfredo Pareto and became popular after WWII. Today, it’s also known as the Pareto Principle, the 80:20 Rule, the Principle of Least Effort, the Principle of Imbalance, the Pareto Law, the Law of the Vital Few, and the Principle of Factor Sparsity.
The ratio may not always be exactly 80:20, i.e. it could be more imbalanced at 90:10 or less imbalanced at 60:40. The key idea is—there’s typically a non-linear relationship between input and output, between effort and results, and between causes and consequences. In business, 20% of our products/customers tend to contribute to 80% of our revenues/profits. In society, 20% of people own 80% of the wealth. At home, we’ll wear 20% of our clothes 80% of the time.
APPLYING 80/20 PRINCIPLE:
The 80/20 Rule means that there’s great inefficiency all around us, but there’s also a huge potential to improve our current results. Here are some general tips on how to use the 80/20 Principle:
Identify your top 20% vs bottom 80%
You can do so using a more analytical approach or a more intuitive approach:
• 80/20 Analysis: Develop a hypothesis about an 80-20 relationship and test it by collecting and comparing 2 sets of data. For example, ask 100 friends how much beer they drank the previous week, then rank the data in decreasing order to find out what percentage of your friends consume the majority of the beer. You may find that 15% of your friends drank 90% of the beer.
• 80/20 Thinking: Think deeply about an important question, form your 80-20 hypothesis intuitively, then take action to apply it.
Reallocate your time/resources in 2 ways
• Allocate more resources to the top 20% by moving time/resources away from the unproductive 80%. Do more of what’s working well.
• Address the underperforming 80%: Find ways to make the unproductive activities more productive or effective.
Remember these points when applying the 80/20 Principle
• Be selective. Working harder in every area won’t bring results. Seek to excel in the few things that matter the most. Remove or outsource the rest.
• Keep moving your resources from low-value to high-value uses.
• Don’t make simple/linear conclusions or jump into action. Think deeply to look for non-linear relationships that can bring you exponential results. Dig deep to understand why you’re getting surprisingly good or bad results in certain areas.
• There’s no such thing as luck in success. When things go unexpectedly well or badly, look for hidden causes at work.
The 80/20 Principle in Business and in Life
In any business, 20% of the market players will make 80% of the surpluses or profits. 80% of these surpluses will be generated by 20% of market segments, 20% of customers, 20% of products, and 20% of employees. 80% of the value from the employees will also come from 20% of their activities. In our personal lives, 80% of our achievement comes from 20% of our efforts, 80% of our happiness comes from 20% of our life experiences, and so on.
In our complete 12-page summary, we’ve distilled how businesses can apply the Pareto Principle to generate the most money with the least effort and resources (including applications in strategy, cost reduction, sales and marketing, decision-making, negotiation, inventory, and project management). We also elaborate on how you can apply the 80/20 Principle to your personal life (including how to change the way you see and use time, and multiply your achievements, wealth, relationships, and happiness).
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Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David translates this skill into a valuation methodology that applies to high performers at all levels of business. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers.
About the Author
Patrick Bet-David is an entrepreneur and investor. While growing up, his family escaped from war-torn Iraq and became refugees in Germany, before immigrating to the United States. Patrick joined the US Army on graduating from high school (with an impressive 1.8 GPA), and served in the 101st Airborne Division. He was honorably discharged at age twenty-one and went to work selling health club memberships for Bally Total Fitness. He joined Morgan Stanley Dean Witter the day before 9/11 and left a year later to run Transamerica Agency Network. Patrick then started his own financial services and life insurance firm, PHP Agency Inc., which has grown to more than 12,000 agents in 49 states. He also founded and hosts Valuetainment, a YouTube channel for entrepreneurs. Patrick Bet-David never obtained a college degree. His social content has generated more than a billion views.
The Main Idea
To become a chess grandmaster, you have to develop the ability to look five moves ahead. In a similar vein, to excel in business, become a strategist and think at least five moves ahead all the time.
Specifically, to succeed in business, there are five future strategic moves you need to master:
Even if you don't play chess, you still need to learn how to act like a chess grandmaster. Always think five moves ahead in whatever you do.
YOUR NEXT FIVE MOVES
WHAT WILL YOU GET FROM THIS BOOK?
Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David “helps entrepreneurs understand exactly what they need to do next” (Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog!) by translating this skill into a valuable methodology. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers.
You will gain:
CLARITY on what you want and who you want to be.
STRATEGY to help you reason in the war room and the board room.
GROWTH TACTICS for good times and bad.
SKILLS for building the right team based on strong values.
INSIGHT on power plays and the art of applying leverage.
Combining these principles and revelations drawn from Patrick’s own rise to successful CEO, Your Next Five Moves is a must-read for any serious executive, strategist, or entrepreneur.
5 MOVES TO MASTER FROM THE BOOK
- MOVE 1: MASTER KNOWING YOURSELF
- MOVE 2: MASTER THE ABILITY TO REASON
- MOVE 3: MASTER BUILDING THE RIGHT TEAM
- MOVE 4: MASTER STRATEGY TO SCALE
- MOVE 5: MASTER POWER PLAYS
Master the Art of Business Strategy
Move #1 — Master knowing yourself. Knowing yourself is rarely talked about in business circles, but it's impossible to think ahead without self-awareness. Once you definitively decide who you want to be, which direction to take will become much more clear, as well as why it matters.
Move #2 — Master the ability to reason. How to process issues, and having a methodology for making decisions is important. No decision is ever black-and-white, and if you can learn to see all the shades of gray, that will help you move forward decisively, even in the face of uncertainty.
Move #3 — Master building the right team. To build the right team around you, it's vital that you get to understand others. If you help people find the best in themselves, you can build a team that will help you grow. Ask questions, challenge your people to understand themselves, and build trust in your team.
Move #4 — Master strategy to scale. Ideally, you want to spark exponential growth. Learn how to raise capital, invest in rapid growth, and create systems that will allow you to gain and maintain momentum. Tracking and constantly measuring the key parts of your business model is required.
Move #5 — Master making power plays. Everyone wants to beat the Goliath in your industry, and if you do that it will be great for your reputation and future operations. Learn how to control your narrative and leverage social media productively to frame your story. Always keep thinking five moves ahead.
Key Takeaways
- Get into the habit of thinking five moves ahead in everything you do in business. Just working to try and do that will lift your game and lead to greater success.
- In every industry, 80 percent of the players will be actors, and only 20 percent will be doers. The key to positioning yourself firmly in the doers' camp is to be continually investing in learning and growth. Invest in yourself. Think five moves ahead.
CONCLUSION
Really liked Your Next Five Moves. I like the concept of needing to think five moves ahead. Patrick Bet-David gave a great example of this. He mentioned when Michael Jordan joined the Dream Team at the 1992 Olympics, winning a medal was just a by-product of Michael Jordan's plan. His real agenda was to check out the strengths and weaknesses of the other top players in the NBA. By playing on the Dream Team, Jordan then knew how to beat the other top players when he got back to the NBA the following year. Now that's thinking ahead.
Like Richard Branson, Patrick Bet-David never attended college but had to learn about business as he went along. It was to his advantage, and he has been highly successful in the financial services industry. His suggestion that you have to learn the big five strategic moves and always be thinking a few moves ahead makes sense. Whether you play chess or not, acting like a chess grandmaster is a great way to operate. Great book.
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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
WHAT ARE RED OCEANS AND BLUE OCEANS?
In their classic book, Blue Ocean Strategy, Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne coined the terms ’red ocean’ and ‘blue ocean’ to describe the market universe.
RED OCEANS are all the industries in existence today – the known market space. In red oceans, industry boundaries are defined and accepted, and the competitive rules of the game are known.
Here, companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of existing demand. As the market space gets crowded, profits and growth are reduced. Products become commodities, leading to a cutthroat or ‘bloody’ competition. Hence the term red oceans.
BLUE OCEANS, in contrast, denote all the industries not in existence today – the unknown market space, untainted by competition. In blue oceans, demand is
created rather than fought over. There is ample opportunity for growth that is both profitable and rapid.
In blue oceans, competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set. A blue ocean is an analogy to describe the wider, deeper potential to be found in unexplored market space. A blue ocean is vast, deep, and powerful in terms of profitable growth.
The global phenomenon that has sold over 4 million copies, is published in a record-breaking 46 languages and is a bestseller across five continents--now updated and expanded with new content. Named by Fast Company as one of the most influential leadership books in its Leadership Hall of Fame. A strategy classic.
In this perennial bestseller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves (spanning more than 100 years across 30 industries), the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating "blue oceans"--untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.
BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture its own blue oceans. This expanded edition includes:
- A new preface by the authors: Help! My Ocean Is Turning Red
- Updates on all cases and examples in the book, bringing their stories up to the present time
- Two new chapters and an expanded third one--Alignment, Renewal, and Red Ocean Traps --that address the most pressing questions readers have asked over the past 10 years
A landmark work that upends traditional thinking about strategy, this bestselling book charts a bold new path to winning the future. Consider this your guide to creating uncontested market space--and making the competition irrelevant.
To learn more about the power of BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY, visit blueoceanstrategy.com. There you'll find all the resources you need--from ideas in practice and cases from government and private industry to teaching materials, mobile apps, real-time updates, and tips and tools to help you make your blue ocean journey a success.
Product details
- Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press; Expanded edition (January 20, 2015)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1625274491
- ISBN-13 : 978-1625274496
- Item Weight : 1.19 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.3 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #10,145 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #6 in Systems & Planning
- #61 in Business Management (Books)
- #105 in Leadership & Motivation
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CONCLUSION
KEY POINTS OF BLUE OCEAN STRATEGY & SHIFT
It’s grounded in data
Blue Ocean's strategy is based on a decade-long study of more than 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.
It provides a step-by-step process
From assessing the current state of play in the industry to exploring the six paths to new market space to understanding how to convert noncustomers into customers, blue ocean strategy and shift provide a systematic process to create your blue ocean.
It pursues differentiation and low cost
Blue ocean's strategy is based on the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation AND low cost. It is an ‘and-and’ not an ‘either-or’ strategy.
It maximizes opportunity while minimizing risk
Blue ocean strategy allows you to test the commercial viability of your ideas and shows you how to refine your ideas to maximize your upside while minimizing downside risk.
It creates uncontested market space
Blue ocean's strategy doesn’t aim to outperform the competition. It aims to make the competition irrelevant by reconstructing industry boundaries.
It builds execution into strategy
The process and tools are inclusive, easy to understand, and visual – which makes the process non-intimidating and an effective path to building execution into strategy.
It empowers you through tools and frameworks
The Blue ocean strategy offers systematic tools and frameworks to shift from a red ocean of competition to a blue ocean of new market space.
It shows you how to create a win-win outcome
As an integrated approach, the blue ocean strategy shows how to align the three strategy propositions – value, profit, and people – to create a win-win outcome. Blue ocean shift builds humanness into the process to build people’s confidence to own and drive the process.
