The 80/20 Principle: The Secret of Achieving
More With Less
RICHARD KOCH
The 80 20 principle intro :
This has been the most painful and well-researched book I have ever
written. There is a certain irony here, since the 80/20 Principle tells us that I
could have obtained a book 80 per cent as good in 20 per cent of the time.
This would certainly have been my inclination and only the reader can tell
whether the extra effort has been worthwhile. I think it has, but I have lost
all objectivity.
The effort involved has been much more collective than for
any of my previous books. Don’t believe the false modesty of those who
write generously that their books have been ‘team efforts’. In the end only
an author (or authors) can write a book. But I want to thank some
individuals without whom this book would either not have existed or would
have been vastly inferior.
First is Mark Allin, then at Pitman Publishing and now my partner in
Capstone Publishing, who first had the idea of the book.
Second is Nicholas Brealey. He has put terrific insight into the book. I am
glad that the sales are rewarding this! According to the Von Manstein
principle (see Chapter 13), people like Nicholas who are smart and
industrious will not be as successful as those who are smart and lazy.
To
become a real star, Nicholas must work a great deal less. I have a theory
that if he published half the number of books, and put all his effort into
these, he’d make even more money. I hope my next book will not be one to
get the axe! I am very grateful for his persistence on this book. ....................................
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