80 / 20 Daily - Richard Koch

I was hoping for a descriptive and informative little book, however it missed the mark for me as I just found it a little repetitive. I'm not sure whether I needed to read a different book before this one in order to get the most from it. Many thanks Nicholas Brealey US for this e-arc in return for my honest thoughts and opinions

In 1997 Richard Kock wrote his seminal work, The 80/20 Principle, which taught readers how to leverage the 20 percent of efforts that lead to 80 percent of their successful endeavors. In essence, how to work smarter, not harder. Since then, Koch has written several books based on using this principle. His latest effort is 80/20 Daily, basically a how to figure out those 20% efforts in your daily life that give the most gains.
In theory, the concept is a good one. However, Koch has ridden so high on his own successes that he forgets that not everyone can cut their hours back to 10 a week, start their own business, or delegate all the menial tasks of their lives to other people. He fully embraces his own concept of lazy intelligence in this book by capitalizing off the successes of his earlier works and not putting nearly as much thought and effort into this one. This is very disappointing because looked at with an enterprising eye, there is much to teach the incoming group of 20 something workers and those in mid-life still 10+years from retirement; those starting families and the empty nesters; the single, childless people who don't want to own their own business, but prefer to work in companies, small businesses or non-profits. Being smart, lazy, and highly productive is a worthy goal, but Koch doesn't supply the information to teach one how to do so, just glib commentary that it should be achieved. This book was, for me, a wasted exploration of how the 80/20 principle could be broken down into more approachable pieces and applied to daily life. It really missed that mark.

I was intrigued to read this book as the 80/20 rule is thrown around often at work during projects and meetings and I thought exploring this premise from a different angle would be useful.

Based around the theory that you can focus 20% of your efforts/actions in such a way that they solve the other 80%. The book is written in a way that means you can dip in and out of the short, snappy, sections brought to the reader as daily snippets to inspire and improve your life.

I haven't read Koch's earlier book, 'The 80/20 Principle' but I wonder if this is a re-hash of that as I can't really understand how it could be much different.

Overall this offered some interesting and easy to digest insights but it didn't quite hit the spot for me.

THE HOOK/APPEAL: Applying 80/20 to your daily routines and habits

THE REVIEW: I'm an addict for self-development and a longtime believer in the 80/20 principle, so a book that shows you how to apply that in practical steps? I'm here for it.

THE RATING: 4.7, rounded!

Unfortunately, it seems this book was not the right one for me. I found the scientific explanations for the 80/20 quite lacking, and the contents of the book felt repetitive after the first few chapters. This seems like a fun self-help book for a novice, or someone that's not too scientifically-aligned, but I wouldn't recommend it to graduate students or knowledge workers.

A lot of this book reminded me of 10x is better than 2x. Yet there was a different twist to it. If you read 10x is better than 2x you will love this and it adds a lot of new ideas to the concepts taught in that book

I hate to not give a good book review but this I wasn't able to finish....

I thought it started really strong with respect to intelligence vs. laziness vs. ambition! I think this was discussed in a very digestible way. However, Koch early on made references to CEOs who purposefully blocked their calendars out with false meetings and delegated their tasks to managers who ended up working 60-70 hours a week. I'm glad the CEO was able to find happiness and had time for himself...but I wasn't glad to hear that the cost was clearly his employees being stressed and overworked. Later on, Koch mentioned Margaret Thatcher as someone whose one-track-mindedness diverted Britain's national decline. Which...is good I guess with the exception of literally all of Ireland??

It's clear to me that his 80/20 examples come to the direct cost of the working class, which makes this book very hard to swallow.

This book wasn’t for me. I didn’t find the content practical or helpful, and ultimately, I didn’t finish it.

I'm choosing to DNF this because it simply didn’t resonate with me, but it might be a perfect fit for someone else!

The writing in this book felt so chaotic and disorganized to me that it was difficult to connect with the message. I guess it might be just me, because lots of other reviewers found this book to be very helpful.

80/20 Daily goes over the idea that a small portion of our efforts (20%) often yields the majority of results (80%) so that we should work on eliminating the things that don't matter. I didn't realize that this author has written many other books, including the 80/20 Principle. I wonder if I should have read that before reading 80/20 Daily? I think the concept is quite interesting, but the execution of how to accomplish it in your professional life was a little off putting. Basically offload most tasks on everyone else that has less power than you.

Thank you, NetGalley, for giving me the opportunity to read and review 80/20 Daily as an e-ARC.

A good read with useable and interesting tips to make your life easier. I enjoyed it and will recommend it to others.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an opportunity to read this book in exchange for a honest review. All opinions are my own.
Im sure there is an audience for this book, but im not it. While I was initially excited to read it because I agree with the 80/20 principles- about 80% of how we spend our time in meaningless. It is the 20% that really drive us forward. Ideally the goal is to spend less time of the meaningless stuff.

I found the writing to to be glib and condescending, and very very dry. The advice is to cut your work back to 10 hours a week, and only do what you enjoy . He speak about how the ideal is to be smart and lazy- off loading as much work as possible on others who have less power, and gleefully leaving work to play tennis while your underlings work 60+ hours really started to bother me. He totally lost me when he recommend that we remove all stress from our lives. Ya, think??? But gave no advice on how to do so, especially for those that are working to survive. Then he moved on to the next subject.

I generally think that many self-help books tend to be repetitive with the same concepts getting stretched out to too many chapters. 80/20 Daily isn't for everyone but the daily devotional-style structure is perfect for this style of book. Yes, you may get the same or similar messages but not at once. Honestly, I wish there were more non-religious books like this.

This book has the same problem that lots of self-help books have, it's not for everyone. This book lists examples of people who use the 80/20 lifestyle and don't outwardly seem to work that hard. Some people will be able to do this while many of us will not. This book feels like it's for someone with lots of autonomy in their job and personal life.

I don't fault the author for this reality. Every self-help book cannot be everything for everyone but unfortunately, this one wasn't for me. Thanks for the opportunity to review.

An interesting read and I'll look forward to putting some of the ideas into practice. I thought it might all be business related but there's some excellent ideas for individuals. Thanks to the author, netGalley and publisher for the arc

Interesting and well written. I can recommend this book.

Thanks to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for the copy.

Richard Koch’s 80/20 Daily is an easy to read and understand book on…well everything, lol. Or rather it’s a book focused on the 80/20 principle and in this book Koch gives bite sized, easy to digest nuggets on how it can be applied to all facets of our daily lives. I’m a real fan of all sorts of self help books, always believe even if I only take one piece of new information from a book it’s worthwhile, and I can definitely see how adhering to the principle could be beneficial. Still early on for me adapting to this way of thinking so it remains to be seen if I stick to it or not (though even if I were to only apply it to one or two aspects my daily life I’d view it as a success and worth my time.) Thanks so much to Nicholas Brealey Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC.

As someone who practices their own version of Pareo and routines, I expected to like this book but unfortunately, except for a few insights, I found it preachy, on-the-nose, and had other issues with the content, the presentation and the style of writing,
I wish this book the best, and hope the matching audiences enjoy it and take immense value out of it.
This was not for me at all.

This was a good follow-up to the 80/20 Priciple; it gives the reader the means to apply the concepts to their lives. The daily tips are helpful but I did not feel that they were very original, almost common sense but many readers need to take it to the bare minimum or easy and for that, I think this is great.

Thank you NetGally for an advanced copy/early read opportunity!!

An interesting follow-up to his work on the 80/20 Principle, this book is basically a daily tip on how to apply the concept to your life. I felt there were a lot of platitudes here but not a lot of meat for me. At most, I found only of the few daily tips helpful or new.

Thank you to Netgalley and Nicholas Brealey US for an ARC and I voluntarily left this review.