Vilfred Pareto a French Economist of the previous century developed a theory which implied that 80% of the revenues in a society are generated by 20% of the people; the rest are directly or indirectly dependent on it. To what extent this theory and this ratio was useful at any time in practical analysis of economies or their improvement is just fickle HISTORY; But the business people who create economies have been more ingenious in utilizing this ratio in numerous applications of business management. The uses of this ratio range from Time management through business negotiation and upto general usage of the brain by an average active human.

Read carefully and see if any of these ideas helps you to organize yourself and your work in a better and efficient manner :

• 80% of the problems in an organisation are created by 20% of the employees !
  therefore, optimize your efforts to help in corrective measures or remove the incorrigible from the system.
• 80% of the correspondence received by you may be unproductive, only 20% of it needs your considered attention !
  so, optimize your efforts, be more efficient and concentrate on the productive part (20%); let subordinates screen/handle the rest (80%).
• 80% of the revenues comes from 20% of the customers !
  So, ensure absolute devotion and maintenance to the 20% and at the same time try to enhance this percentage.
• 80% of the concessions in a business deal are given off in the last 20% of the negotiations, therefore, save the maximum to be given off only in the last stage.
  So, prepare with all the factors involved before a negotiation.
• 20% of the range of products generate 80% of the profits for an organization.
  So, ensure the supremacy and yield of the 20% and try to add more to the percentage.
• 80% of the manufacturing activity amongst competitors is common, only 20% of the activity makes all the difference between success and failure in competition.
  Only the optimum utilization of imagination and creative faculties of Human Resources can ensure the maintenance of this 20% difference.
• Only 20% of the capabilities of the brain are put to optimum use by a normal active human being 80% of the capability is more or less idle.
  Try to enhance the capacity utilization.
• Sale of 20% of the products in an organization creates 80% of the paperwork.
  Make business smooth by integrating and reducing the paper work to allow smooth flow of business or else it may become red tape, bureaucratized and may obstruct business activity.
• 80% of Human activity is devoted to satisfaction of physical and emotional needs; only 20% of the activities are somehow directed towards intellectual needs. Those who are lower in intellectual activity are nearer to basal or even seminal existence. Those who are higher than 20% in intellectual activity, contribute to change in human life on earth.

If you have intellectual activity more than 20% and have more ideas, spread them for the benefit of All.