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"READ THIS BOOK AND USE IT." TIM FERRISS 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. Richard Koch's
million-copy-selling global bestseller is now completely revised
and updated, and more powerful and essential than ever. He reveals
how the principle works and shows how to use it in a systematic and
practical way to vastly increase your effectiveness, and improve
your career. 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 the essential tool for anyone who
wants to succeed. Be more effective with less effort by learning
how to leverage the 80/20 principle.
In Superconnect, Richard Koch and Greg Lockwood show that success
is less about who you are than how you connect a chance meeting
with an old colleague leads to a swanky new job; two businessmen
collaborate online and cofound a successful start-up; a friend
introduces a promising entrepreneur to a millionaire looking to
invest. But why do these lucky breaks always happen to other
people? Personal and professional networks shape everything we do,
but simply knowing that they exist won t help you harness your
connections for maximum success. With an eye toward business
applications, Superconnect outlines the new rules of our densely
linked society. At the core of the analysis are three simple
network components strong relationships, weak relationships, and
hubs that interact in surprising, counterintuitive ways.
Understanding how these components mesh, and connecting unrelated
people, is the way to achieve in today s hyper-connected world."
Western civilization has thrived more than any other civilization
in the past or present - it has been much more successful in
economic, military and political terms, in science and technology,
in the arts, and in enhancing its citizens' health, wealth,
longevity and even, probably, their happiness. A large degree of
success can be traced to six principal ideas - Christianity,
optimism, science, economic growth, liberalism and individualism.
In 1900, most Westerners felt tremendous pride and confidence in
their civilization. They knew what it stood for, and they believed
in it. Today that sense has gone. And that is largely because the
six ideas which underpinned Western confidence have suffered a
century of sustained attack. The ideas no longer inspire or unite
the West, nor do they give individuals the confidence essential for
unconscious coordinated action. A drift towards collective suicide
is evident; it is deeply impregnated in our history since 1914. It
can be traced to the declining confidence in each of the attributes
that used to inspire the West and the world. However, a careful
examination of the six factors shows that they have great
resilience. Much of today's hostility to the ideas is based on
fashionable but flaky concepts, such as Freud's view of human
nature, which scientific evidence rebuts. In theory, a more
sophisticated synthesis of the six ideas could provide a way for
the West to recover its nerve and integrity. But in practice? This
fascinating book seeks to find the answer.
How do people of seemingly ordinary talent go on to achieve
unexpected results? What can we learn from them? What are the
ingredients for unreasonable success and how is it achieved? In
this ground-breaking book, bestselling author Richard Koch charts a
map of success, identifying the nine key attitudes and strategies
can propel anyone to new heights of accomplishment. The pattern of
success is fractal. It is endlessly varied but endlessly similar.
Success does not require genius, consistency, all-round ability, a
safe pair of hands or even basic competence. If it did, most of the
people in this book would not have impacted the world as they did.
Who could have predicted that Nelson Mandela, a once-obscure
lawyer, could have averted disaster in South Africa, reconciling
people of different heritages to each other and establishing a
viable democracy? Or that Helena Rubinstein, a young woman growing
up in the grotty ghetto of Krakow, could have changed the face of
beauty throughout the world? Or that the illegitimate son of a
notary would become one of the world's greatest painters, known
universally by his first name, Leonardo? Successful people
typically don't plan their success. Instead they develop a unique
philosophy or attitude that works for them. They stumble across
strategies which are shortcuts to success, and latch onto them.
Events hand them opportunities they could not have anticipated.
Often their peers with equal or greater talent fail while they
succeed. It is too easy to attribute success to inherent,
unstoppable genius. With this book, you can embark on a journey
towards a new, unreasonably successful future.
Everyone knows that strategy is the cornerstone of any business.
But very few people know how to make it work for them. What do
smart people know about strategy that the rest of us don't? And how
can we learn from the best and apply the lessons for ourselves?
Smart Strategy gives you everything you need to devise a great
strategy and keep it on track. Watch your sales grow and your
company take off!
Smart books are essential primers to the key issues facing business
people. They are practical and action-oriented, providing instant
knowledge for ambitious and hungry professionals who want to make a
lasting impression throughout their career. Smart books are
designed to give killer approaches to key business subjects, and
deliver sound principles in a style that is both informative and
has attitude. They are the prefect resource for time-starved,
information-hungry business people everywhere!
YOUR COMPLETE GUIDE TO STRATEGY. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. The Financial
Times Guide to Strategy is your unbeatable reference on strategy.
It offers an incisive overview of both corporate level and business
unit level strategy, an A to Z of the world's leading strategic
thinkers and introduces the key strategic tools and techniques you
need to develop your own strategy. Based on long experience and on
conversations with leading strategists around the world, Richard
Koch helps you discover each critical step in creating, delivering
and understanding successful strategy. The fifth edition of this
bestselling book is your easy-to-read, jargon-free guide to the
strategic models and thinkers you really need to know about.
Updated with new tools and examples, The Financial Times Guide to
Strategy shows you which questions to ask, how to go about
answering them, and then what action to take. This is the smartest
and most readable strategy guide available anywhere.
How anyone can be more effective with less effort by learning how to identify and leverage the 80/20 principle--the well-known, unpublicized secret that 80 percent of all our results in business and in life stem from a mere 20 percent of our efforts.
The 80/20 principle is one of the great secrets of highly effective people and organizations.
Did you know, for example, that 20 percent of customers account for 80 percent of revenues? That 20 percent of our time accounts for 80 percent of the work we accomplish? The 80/20 Principle shows how we can achieve much more with much less effort, time, and resources, simply by identifying and focusing our efforts on the 20 percent that really counts. Although the 80/20 principle has long influenced today's business world, author Richard Koch reveals how the principle works and shows how we can use it in a systematic and practical way to vastly increase our effectiveness, and improve our careers and our companies.
The unspoken corollary to the 80/20 principle is that little of what we spend our time on actually counts. But by concentrating on those things that do, we can unlock the enormous potential of the magic 20 percent, and transform our effectiveness in our jobs, our careers, our businesses, and our lives.
EXTRAORDINARY RESULTS WITHOUT EXTRAORDINARY EFFORT. Richard Koch's
original bestseller THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE gave millions of highly
effective businesspeople around the world a serious advantage in
the pursuit of success. In 80/20 YOUR LIFE (previously published as
Living the 80/20 Way) he shows how to use this powerful tool in all
areas of your life. 80/20 YOUR LIFE shows how working out the few
things that are really important, and the few methods that will
give you those things, leads to increased happiness and greater
success. When you read this book, you'll discover why 'less is
more' isn't just a saying, but a sure-fire method to achieve your
goals and live your best life. 80/20 YOUR LIFE shows how working
and worrying less can transform your personal life. 'Highly
practical and full of examples... The trick is to apply 'less is
more' and 'more with less' to ourselves, our work and our
relationships' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'This book is for anyone
interested in succeeding personally as well as professionally. It
uses a simple, concise, self-help approach to guide the reader
through the different areas of life that can benefit from the 80/20
way of thinking' PROFESSIONAL MANAGER
Richard Koch has made over GBP100 million from spotting 'Star'
businesses. In his new book, he shares the secrets of his success -
and shows how you too can identify and enrich yourself from
'Stars'. Star businesses are ventures operating in a high-growth
sector - and are the leaders in their niche of the market. Stars
are rare. But with the help of this book and a little patience, you
can find one, or create one yourself. THE STAR PRINCIPLE is a vital
book for any budding entrepreneur or investor (of grand or modest
means). It is also invaluable for any ambitious employee who
realises the benefits of working for a Star venture - real
responsibility, fast personal development, better pay, great
bonuses and valuable share options. Whoever your are, identifying
and investing in Stars will make your life much sweeter and richer
in every way.
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Smart Leadership (Paperback, 2)
Jonathan Yudelowitz, Richard Koch, Robin Field
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Smart Leadership provides a completely up to date overview of the
current thinking on leadership. It outlines the latest theories and
principles you need to apply to be a successful leader and includes
tips and wisdom from the greatest business thinkers and
writers.
Smart books are essential primers to the key issues facing business
people. They are practical and action-oriented, providing instant
knowledge for ambitious and hungry professionals who want to make a
lasting impression throughout their career. Smart books are
designed to give killer approaches to key business subjects, and
deliver sound principles in a style that is both informative and
has attitude. They are the prefect resource for time-starved,
information-hungry business people everywhere!
A new 21st century individualism is overtaking
"corporation-as-king" capitalism, transforming the way we work and
live. Today, real power rests in the hands of creative individuals
like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and Steven
Spielberg, who are changing the world one great idea at a time. In
THE 80/20 INDIVIDUAL, Richard Koch reveals the secret of their
success: they discovered what they do better than anyone else and
rode it for all its worth.
In this inspiring sequel to his classic bestseller THE 80/20
PRINCIPLE, Koch shows how to maximize success in your career and
life by using the proven principle that 80 percent of changes in
the world result from the most powerful 20 percent of actions and
ideas. He'll show how to use your own powerful "20 percent spike" -
your most creative ideas and unique skills - to measure the amount
of value you bring to your employer, clients or customers. For most
people, there is a huge disparity between their intrinsic value and
the compensation they receive for their efforts. THE 80/20
INDIVIDUAL shows how to narrow that gap.
Drawing from his own success as an entrepreneur, as well as from
the stories of scores of companies and individuals who have
flourished as a result of an 80/20 mind-set, Koch offers a
step-by-step method to remodeling a career or existing business, or
creating a new one - one that most benefits you. He provides
valuable insights on finding 80/20 partners, hiring 80/20
employees, and running an 80/20 business.
By building a team that supports your efforts and excels in areas
where you lack experience or knowledge, you'll be able to focus
your time and energy on your strengths. Productivity and profits
will soar because you'll be doing what you do best and enjoy the
most. By using the 80/20 strategies outlined in the book, you can
take control of your career and financial future.
Millions of highly effective people around the world have read Richard
Koch's global bestseller THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE and enjoyed a serious
advantage in the pursuit of success. Now, BEYOND THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE
(previously published as The 80/20 Principle and 92 Other Powerful Laws
of Nature) takes you even further.
Including the 80/20 Principle itself - the radical power law that helps
you achieve more by doing less - BEYOND THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE reveals 92
more universal scientific principles and laws that will help you
achieve personal success in an increasingly challenging business
environment.
From natural selection to genes and memes, BEYOND THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE
demonstrates, in theory and in practice, what science can teach you
about business and success. It includes:
* Evolution by Natural Selection
* Business Genes
* Gause's Laws
* Evolutionary Psychology
* Newton's Laws
* Relativity
* Quantum Mechanics
* Chaos
* Complexity
* The Tipping Point
* Increasing Returns
* Unintended Consequences
A large number of managers - especially in these difficult times -
feel completely overwhelmed. Their inboxes are overflowing, they
constantly struggle to finish their to-do lists and they stay at
work longer than they would like to, leaving little time for the
things that really matter. Luckily there is a way for managers to
enjoy work and build a successful and fulfilling career without
stress or long hours. In his bestselling book The 80/20 Principle,
Richard Koch showed readers how to put the 80/20 Principle - the
idea that 80 per cent of results come from just 20 per cent of
effort - into practice in their personal lives. Now he demonstrates
the few things you need to do in the workplace to multiply the
results you achieve. By applying the strategies outlined in The
80/20 Manager, you will: - Put in fewer hours than your colleagues
yet never be short of time - Learn to focus only on the issues that
really matter, and ignore those that don't - Achieve exceptional
results by working less hard - Feel successful every day
For the past forty years, Richard Koch has worked to uncover simple
and elegant principles which govern business success. To qualify, a
principle must be so overwhelmingly powerful that anyone can
reliably apply it to generate extraordinary results. Working with
venture capitalist Greg Lockwood and supported by specially
commissioned research from OC&C Strategy Consultants, Koch has
now found one elemental principle that unites extraordinarily
valuable companies: simplifying. Some firms simplify on price -
consider budget flights stripped of all extras that still take you
from A to B - creating new, huge mass markets for their wares.
Others, such as Apple, simplify their proposition, bringing a
beautifully easy-to-use product or service to a large premium
market. How can your business become a simplifier? With case
studies of some of the most famous firms of the last hundred years,
from finance to fast food, this enlightening book shows how to
analyse any company's potential to simplify, and enrich the world.
How do people of seemingly ordinary talent go on to achieve unexpected results? What can we learn from them? What are the ingredients for unreasonable success and how is it achieved?
In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author Richard Koch charts a map of success, identifying the nine key attitudes and strategies can propel anyone to new heights of accomplishment.
The pattern of success is fractal. It is endlessly varied but endlessly similar. Success does not require genius, consistency, all-round ability, a safe pair of hands or even basic competence. If it did, most of the people in this book would not have impacted the world as they did.
Who could have predicted that Nelson Mandela, a once-obscure lawyer, could have averted disaster in South Africa, reconciling people of different heritages to each other and establishing a viable democracy? Or that Helena Rubinstein, a young woman growing up in the grotty ghetto of Kraków, could have changed the face of beauty throughout the world? Or that the illegitimate son of a notary would become one of the world's greatest painters, known universally by his first name, Leonardo?
Successful people typically don't plan their success. Instead they develop a unique philosophy or attitude that works for them. They stumble across strategies which are shortcuts to success, and latch onto them. Events hand them opportunities they could not have anticipated. Often their peers with equal or greater talent fail while they succeed. It is too easy to attribute success to inherent, unstoppable genius.
With this book, you can embark on a journey towards a new, unreasonably successful future.
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