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The Breakthrough Principle of 16x

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The idea of the 20/80 is one of the biggest ideas of all times.
That most of the results (say, 80%) comes from a minority of causes (say 20%).
That way, the effectiveness of the 20% most important of causes, is 16 times higher than that of the other 80% (20%/80% divided by 80%/20%. You get 16 times better.

Used smartly, the principle of X16 can make a huge different in quality of life (happiness) as well in effectiveness across all kinds of activities.

The 4:8 Principle: The Secret to a Joy-Filled Life
16 X is the essence of the 80/20 Principle.

Author Richard Koch wrote this short booklet following his other three books on the subject. It is simply outstanding material crammed into 43 pages. Koch's other 80/20 books include: The 80/20 Principle, The 80/20 Individual, and Living The 80/20 Way. The 80/20 Principle was used for 7 years as The 1% Club's textbook (in addition to Success Is Not An Accident)Success Is Not an Accident: Change Your Choices; Change Your Life. The 80/20 Individual was a poor sequel that I could barely make it through. Living The 80/20 Way became my favorite because it focused more on the personal applications of the Pareto Principle. Then came 16X where the author uses the 80/20 principle in producing the book. Make sure everyone you work with or do business with has read this one!

This is more like a pamphlet than a book. You can read it from cover to cover in an hour. The content is overly simplistic and repetative. If you have read any book about 80/20 rule then you already know everything this book covers. No real insights offered. No need to waste your time or money.

valuable advice and well written, but this should be an appendix to the next reprint of The 80/20 Principle and does not deserve to be a book in it's own right - certainly not at the price. that said, the advice really is good so I give it 3 stars despite myself - 5 stars for the info less 7 stars for being a padded out essay = 3 stars (according to my reckoning anyway).