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What is 80 20 Rule? It’s a simple rule, which says “80% of the output/results are the outcome of 20% of input/efforts.

Also known as The Law of the vital few or The Pareto’s principle.

Named after the popular Italian economist who first observed this, Mr. Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923).

In 1895, Pareto observed that 80% of the wealth in Italy was under the control of 20% of its Population.

Later Dr. Joseph Juran, an eminent personality in operations management, pointed out that the Pareto’s Principle is a Universal phenomenon and applies to anything and everything. The term “Vital few and useful many” was also coined by Dr. Juran.

Examples of 80 20 rule

20% of your Stocks or assets will generate 80% of the Wealth

80% of Revenue comes from 20% of the Customers

20% of the Blog posts bring in 80% of the total traffic

80% of the engagement comes from 20% of the audience

20% of the syllabus makes the 80% of the question paper

How can the Pareto principle help you grow?

Understanding the 80 20 Rule is fairly important to fuel your growth, as the 80 20 Rule says that 80% of results will come from 20% of your efforts, or 80% of your returns will come from 20% of your assets.

Alternatively, 80% of your efforts will only generate 20% of your results or 80% of your assets will only generate 20% of the returns.

Your goal as an individual should be to redirect your efforts and time from that less productive 80% to the More productive or vital 20%.

How can you adopt the 80 20 rule?

Simple answer is POAE.

Prioritizing

Outsourcing

Automation; and

Elimination

Prioritizing the vital 20% of the tasks, which produces 80% of the results, can bring drastic changes in the outcome.

Outsourcing or automating your less productive 80% efforts buys you your time to focus on vital 20%.

Eliminating the 80% of assets that generate 20% of returns and investing the surplus money in that 20% of assets that generate 80% of returns can be very profitable.

However, by this, I don’t mean that sell off all your low returns investments, as we need to invest some of the portion of our portfolio in low-risk instruments to hedge the overall portfolio, and such low-risk instruments naturally give fewer returns, but it is important and healthy for your portfolio and shouldn’t be eliminated. However, managing the weightage of your investment can optimize your returns.

You can also refer to the amazing article by Investopedia on the subject.

Conclusion

To conclude, the 80 20 Rule is a powerful concept to improve your efficiency, the objective is to shift the focus from 100% of the tasks to the vital 20% tasks which will give you the 80% of the result, and to channelize the efforts from non vital 80% to vital 20% and see your growth skyrocketing.

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Having started our sixth world geographic journey in Seattle and venturing beyond into the Native American Nations (Volume 1 and 2), we now finish our tour of the North American continent with the Neo-Anarchist’s Guide to North America (NAGNA).

It begins as all good cyberpunk RPG supplements should, with a microeconomical discussion of goods, utility, and Pareto optimization, complete with supply & demand graphs and Edgewood Exchange boxes.

Your typical shadowrunner looking for new places to blow up with their Ingram Smartgun will open this book and have the same reaction that King Arthur did encounter the constitutional peasants:

I jest, but one thing I’ve enjoyed about Shadowrun is the willingness to go dive deep on some detail that other games might have bothered with:

In the core rulebook, there is an entire page with hundreds of languages for PCs to choose from, and added Linnaean Classifications to paranormal animals.

Shadowtech, which would introduce bioware, was written by an actual MEDICAL DOCTOR and gives an introduction to the human bodies organ systems that rivals any college professors.

(and I’m a college professor, so I know)

The Guide covers most of the other sovereign nations of North America in 2050:

United Canadian and American States (UCAS) – which is the successor to the USA as far as we’re concerned.

Yeah, this was right way to go with the flag.

Confederated States of America (CSA) – which is absolutely NOT the Confederacy back from the Civil War, but you know… come on…

Their eyes met from across the smoky downtown Birmingham watering hole, then each caught each other’s Confederate Battle Flag… Yes… they were an economically anxious match made in heaven.

California Free State (CFS) – which really should have gone its own way LONG ago.

Admit it: a glazed pepperoni pizza donut sounds delicious.

Québec -- Finalement! Nous sommes libres! Attends, on est nul maintenant!

【IA】 「私の愛した君」

IA - Watashi no Aishita Kimi /You whom I loved

Tú a quien amé

Con tu cristalina voz y largo cabello

Me sentí atraída a tí a primera vista

Seamos amigas me dijiste

Mi voz contestando encantada en conocerte tembló espontáneamente

No nos tomó mucho tiempo comenzar a llevarnos bien

Cuando me veías, siempre me saludabas

Y mi corazón saltaba devolviendo un aún más grande saludo

Que estos días felices continúen oré

Cuando te dije que tu cabello largo era lindo

「Lo dejaré crecer aún más」 respondiste tímidamente

Trenzando tu cabello, suave y de dulce aroma

Es un recuerdo de esos preciosos días, pintados de un color especial

Tu cristalina voz llama por un desconocido nombre

Tomados de la mano, tú y él

「Tengo novio」 dijiste, con las mejillas ruborizadas

Mi pecho duele tanto, pero si eres feliz

Tu primera pelea con él

Te tomó mucho tiempo recuperarte,

Te acercaste a mí y estallaste en desaliñadas lágrimas

Tentativamente pasé mi mano por tu cabello

Ahora corto

Si, él te dijo que le gustaba el pelo corto

Y tú fuiste y cortaste ese largo cabello tuyo

Tú, a quien amo tanto, le perteneces a él ahora

Es un recuerdo de esos horrorosamente duros días

「Puedo protegerte」

Dije y sostuve tu tembloroso cuerpo

「Eres como mi propio caballero en armadura brillante」

Respondiste, levantando la cabeza

Una persona no tan buena al mentir

Alguien a quien amo, mi amada

Si fuera yo no he haría llorar así

Una vez más intenté decir: Me gustaba más tu cabello largo

Y te sonrojaste

Recuerdo el largo pasado y yo misma desde entonces

Al final, el tiempo pasó sin ser capaz de decirlo

Tú, vistiendo ese blanco vestido

Lucíendo un corte de pelo corto

「Supongo que el pelo corto realmente te queda」

Pronunciando esas palabras, ya no pude detener mis lágrimas

¿Por qué lloras? te ríes, luciendo perpleja

Todavía no sabes nada

Con una hermosa e inmutable voz

Aunque te amo

Aún más y más

「Estoy tan contenta de que eres feliz, tan contenta」

Con mi escondido rostro

La Ley de Pareto o Regla del 80/20 en la gestión empresarial

Ley de Pareto

La Ley o Principio de Pareto, también conocida como la Regla del 80/20 (ó 20/80), establece que, de forma general y para un amplio número de fenómenos, aproximadamente el 80% de las consecuencias proviene del 20% de las causas.

Vilfredo Federico Pareto (1848-1923)​ fue un ingeniero, sociólogo, economista y filósofo italiano, cuyo Principio o Ley nos puede servir de referencia para centrarnos en lo que realmente importa, en lo que nos puede dar mayores satisfacciones con menores esfuerzos, sin malgastar energías y recursos en obtener pobres resultados.

En el mundo empresarial, la Ley de Pareto suele cumplirse, por ejemplo, en los campos de ventas y gastos. Así, en muchos casos se podrá comprobar cómo el 80% de las ventas de una empresa proviene de un 20% de sus clientes, o de un 20% de sus productos, o el 80% de sus gastos del 20% de sus proveedores.

The Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity)[1][2] states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.[3]Management consultant Joseph M. Juran suggested the principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who noted the 80/20 connection while at the University of Lausanne in 1896, as published in his first work, Cours d'économie politique. Essentially, Pareto showed that approximately 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population.

It is an axiom of business management that "80% of sales come from 20% of clients".[4] Richard Koch authored the book, The 80/20 Principle, which illustrated some practical applications of the Pareto principle in business management and life.[5]

Mathematically, the 80/20 rule is roughly followed by a power law distribution (also known as a Pareto distribution) for a particular set of parameters, and many natural phenomena have been shown empirically to exhibit such a distribution.[6]