Posts Tagged ‘Management’

It’s your imagination!

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

When I was a fresh recruit at IBM in the 1960′s everyone had a sign on their desks that said “THINK“. The idea was to instill the practice of engaging your brain prior to speaking. Like most great and valuable slogans—simple but not easy.

Another simple but not easy concept was developed about a century ago by Vilfredo Pareto and refined several decades later by Joseph M. Juran. This principle is commonly referred to as the Pareto Principle or the 80-20 rule.

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