![]() ![]() "Chat with anyone with whom you share space and time," he says. However, this seems at odds with his recommendation to be strategic - to focus on the few and meaningful. Subsequently Koch spent quite a bit of time recommending becoming a "superconnector" and that networking will have a bigger impact on your career (by providing more diverse and better new opportunities) than accomplishments (like your education). ![]() Basic stats says this 80/20 distribution should be expected, so I felt like chapter 1 got a little tedious with his proclamation of all the places he found the 80/20 distribution to exist. Obviously some tasks take less effort and obviously a small proportion of those will have a statistically significant deviation from the average in impact. However, to me it sounds like an obvious result of statistical normal distributions of effort and time. While the plethora of mounting evidence that the distribution exists in the natural world became tediously redundant, I was more irritated with his assertion that no scientists know why this is. Regarding the first point, the author Richard Koch spends a lot of time trying to convince you how strange but naturally evident the 80/20 principle is. Some of the recommendations don't align with recent research Some of the recommendations seemed hypocriticalģ. The fundamental distribution of effort vs reward seems to astound the author when it shouldn't.Ģ. Not only did it end up being quite redundant (which ironically wasted time, an effect at odds with the message of the book), but there were a few problems I had with some of the messaging:ġ. However, I felt this book had many problems and could have used a much heavier hand at editing and culling. The overall message - to be strategic about how you apply your time and effort, is a good message. Worth reading but just know you may need to adapt the ideas or take the spirit of the ideas depending on your particular situation. Anyway, I won't quibble with some of the specific suggestions but take the refresher on the 80/20 rule as a good reminder going into 2014 to look for ways to achieve more by working less, for me and my team. While his premise makes sense-do more by doing less by being strategic about what matters-it felt like he was applauding those clever executives who did this while their teams below them toiled for long hours and little reward. And I rankled at the way content was presented in the "lazy manager" chapter. ![]() I had hoped for more of a middle manager focus. This made it hard for me to relate to some of the content. He draws heavily from his experience in the consulting world and a view of life at the executive level. Koch presents 10 strategies for managers and is clear that some are harder than others, and that he isn't suggesting you'll necessarily be able to pursue them all. Overall, I found this book valuable, although some of the specific examples and suggestions felt a bit out of touch with how a majority of managers are probably able to function. The 80/20 Manager shows a new way to look at management - and at life - to enjoy work and build a successful and fulfilling career. Their inboxes are overflowing and they constantly struggle to finish their to-do lists, leaving little time for the things that really matter. A large number of managers - especially in these difficult times - feel completely overwhelmed. Now in The 80/20 Manager, he demonstrates how to apply the principle to management.Īn 80/20 manager learns to focus only on the issues that really matter, achieving exceptional results, and feeling successful everyday while working less hard in fewer hours. In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle - the idea that 80 percent of results come from just 20 percent of effort - into practice in their personal lives. Bestselling author Richard Koch shows managers how to apply the 80/20 Principle to achieve exceptional results at work - without stress or long hours. ![]()
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