It's not uncommon nowadays to hear about the 80-20 rule. Left unexplained, though, it's hard to see how it would apply to your situation, or any situation for that matter. The Pareto distribution can be used to explain both human activities and natural phenomena, which is, in fact, how it was discovered, as Vilfredo Pareto noticed that 80% of the pea pods in his garden came from 20% of his plants. Economist. Gardener. How does this distribution work? In order to avoid getting into the more complicated mathematical aspect, I'll explain it as such: The square root of the input in any given system generally produces 50% of the output, and in that half of the output, if you take the square root of the input, you will find, again, that it produces half of that output. If you have 10,000 employees, 100 of them do 50% of the output, and even then, 25% of the total output is made by the best 10 of those hundred employees. This means that the bigger the inp...
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