Living the 80/20 Way, New Edition: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More Paperback – April 15, 2014

This book is about applying Paretto's 80/20 in our life (love, work, etc..)I would separate the book into two parts:the first part is quite boring and too philosophically written (though, the whole book is very easy to read). The author is repetitive, sometimes too abstract. Some statements are really fun and ironically saying mind-blowing, like: "if you are poor, money can make you happy". The whole book is full of such an unnecessary, useless statements.The second part is, where the things are happening. The author forces the reader to think, how could she apply the 80/20 in life. There are lot of quizes, summaries, tables to fill and questions to answer. For example the author forces you to rethink, who are you, what do you want from life, and how to achieve it. IN A FUN WAY!. This type of self-discovery has tredemous value for the reader.the funny thing is, that the 80/20 is explained in an undirect way (by showing examples of applicability). There are no hard to understand theories, statistics, etc...Recommended

If you already have read the "80/20 Principle" by the same author, then this book will provide you with only 20% additional information. Mind you, the "80/20 Principle" contained 80% of the most valuable information you need to know about the 80/20 Principle. If you have yet to read the first book, however, this book will contain most of the valuable information contained in the first one and some more.The additional 20% information is related to how you can APPLY the 80/20 principle to improve your life. Most of it is common sense, but it may help some. The author claims he wrote this book becaue one man told him he couldn't understand the 80/20 principle. If you are one of those, this book is a better read than the "80/20 Principle" since this book seems to be written for those with 8th grade reading level.

This book will help you boost your productivity while getting you what you want in life. The author hits the nail on the head. If you do not have a white collar business background, I highly recommend reading this book.Please note that this is substantively a re-write of Koch's The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less book targeted for individuals to use to improve their lives. If you've read The 80/20 Principle, this book may seem to be a "dumbed down" way of saying the same things.However, people learn in different ways. I've given out copies of both books and invariably found that more people "got it" when reading Living the 80/20 Way than reading The 80/20 Principle. If you come from a white collar business background, you may prefer the latter. In contrast, Living the 80/20 Way is written for the masses.What about Koch's The 80/20 Individual: How to Build on the 20% of What You do Best? To me, it seemed to be misnamed. The book was a dry read that appeared to be targeted at corporate managers who like to play buzzword bingo by adding 80/20 to their lexicon of synergy, leadership, paradigm shift, outside-the-box, Six Sigma etc. In other words, the type of book some B school professor might assign to the future pointy-haired bosses (hat tip to Dilbert) of the world.In sum, if you have a white collar business background, get The 80/20 Principle. If not, Living the 80/20 Way is the better choice. Skip The 80/20 Individual.

If you get the premise of 80/20, then much of this book is unnecessary. The stories are nice, but really the principal itself does not require a book or much exposition. The book attempts to show you how to apply the principal to various life situations, from vocation to time management, romance to personal finances, and it succeeds in that. It's just that it doesn't really require a whole book to understand this stuff.What I found missing was a lack of concentrated focus on any one of those areas. I found myself skimming over the stories looking for the meat, but I was left wanting for more. The most thorough section is on personal finances and if you don't have control of yours, reading this and following his advice, and George Clason's "Richest Man In Babylon" will be a big help to you.However, if you already grasp the 80/20 principal, read Ruiz's "The Four Agreements" to master relationships with others and yourself, Clason's "Richest Man In Babylon" to master your finances and Google "the Pomodoro technique" to learn how to master time management. Don't get me wrong. This is a good book. I just didn't find that it added much to my understanding or ability to apply 80/20. If you've never experienced 80/20, you should get and read it, because it will change your life.

It's the 80/20 rule we all know applied to your life. You could probably figure it out for yourself but the book puts it together in a concise way. It provides insight and permission to stop doing things, let go of things and simplify. If you're too busy, too rushed, too cluttered, too...everything. This is a good place to start.You have to be ready to hear the messages and make the changes. But if you are ready to get rid of the drama, the stress, this book provides insights into how to get your life under control.

This is a good book, though I like "The 80/20 Principle" better. It might just be there was enough overlap, and I had recently listened to the other title, which made me feel like there wasn't much new content to be learned. Overall though this author is great, writes in a simple and easy way, and shares some great ideas and techniques for ridding life of clutter and focusing on the few things that bring the most meaning and purpose.

I was very pleased! Thanks!

My wife enjoyed it

Le principe sous-jacent défendu par "living the 80/20 way" est bon (identifier les activités qui vous intéressent vraiment, qui vous rapportent vraiment, qui vous rendent vraiment heureux et se focaliser sur ces activités pour en faire moins avec plus de résultats).Le livre le répète à l'infini, avec très peu d'exemples concrets et de méthode pour le mettre en place (il y a bien un embryon de méthode mais c'est tout).Donc on reste avec l'impression désagréable que l'auteur se moque de nous et applique à nos dépends son principe consistant à travailler le moins possible pour le plus de bénéfices possible.Quand on travaille le moins possible cela donne des livres de ce genre où un bon résumé de 2 pages du livre apporterait 98% de la valeur pour 2% d'effort pour le lecteur.Donc tout en reconnaissant la valeur de l'idée principale développée dans ce livre je regrette que l'auteur fasse aussi peu d'effort pour en faire une vraie méthode et reste à un niveau aussi superficiel.

Nothing of value and the price is just too high for a book like this. Rehash of old stuff and childish output

Koch has written a lot about the 80/20 principle. First he had some pages about it in his strategy books, then expanding and elaborating on the idea in "the 80/20 principle", seeing it as one of the fundamental laws of business, life, the universe and everything in "the power laws", trying to start an 80/20 revolution with "the 80/20 individual" and his more political and sociological writing such as "the third revolution" and "suciede of the west". More recently he has returned to strategy, finance and management with "the 80/20 manager"."The 80/20 way" is a slightly different book in the sense that it is not written for a business audience, but rather for people in general. A consequence of this is that the examples are more focused on issues like how to get an education, how to get a job, how to save and invest money, how to build a personal relationship and how to obtain happiness by simple living. In fact, part 2 of the book deal with these five topics in this particular order, which seems more or less like the natural order of how most of us address these issues, and he then illustrates how the 80/20 principle can be used in each particular case.Interestingly, when Koch writes about self-discovery, authenticity and education, the first of the five chapters in the middle of the book, he doesn't mention his own education at Oxford and Wharton, but rather chooses to illustrate the points by talking about his career as a management consultant and how various experiences from that period helped him understand aspects of himself in terms of why he was now living a different kind of life. As he already talked about Oxford and Wharton in "The 80/20 principle", these new insights was helpful for getting a fuller picture of a man who lives the 80/20 way. When he is not talking about himself, or people like Warren Buffet or Ronald Reagen, most of the people he has interviewed are rather ordinary people with modest ambitions. This is a mixture that works very well, and gives the book great balance.The first part of the book, by the way, explained the three steps of how to live the 80/20 way. The first step is to focus on the 20% goals that produces 80% of happiness and achievement ("less is more"). The second step is to use the 80/20 principle for finding the easiest way for reaching the goals ("more with less"). The third step is to carry out the plan in the simplest way possible, once again using the 80/20 principle by focusing on the small and easy things that produce great results.The third part of the book contains a simple template that illustrates how the ideas of 80/20 goal setting, 80/20 planning and 80/20 action can be implemented. An excellent example of a person wanting to become an expert on animal care illustrates how it can be used.Personally, I think this is one of Koch's best books and it is by far the best self-improvement book I have ever read. His section on personal finance has been of much help for me over the years, which is a summary and a reflective extension of "Your Money or Your Life" (Dominguez & Robin, 1992).