By Dr Gunjan Y Trivedi Many of you wrote to me inquiring about how to use Pareto (80/20) analysis in your business.   I will share some methodologies to help you apply a similar approach to your work. Before we discuss an example, let’s be clear about the objectives.  Remembering the bird from Dronacharya’s test during the training of Pandavas, we should be clear about the two crucial steps.  First, what’s our objective? Once we are clear about the objective, the second step is to achieve the objective.  Dronacharya spent much time probing whether each budding prince knew the

by Dr Gunjan Y Trivedi. As printed in Divya Bhaskar (Gujarati) newspaper Examples of Pareto (80/20 rule) in our daily life Over the past month, I've discussed the Pareto Principle, which states that 80% of the outcomes stem from 20% of the efforts or focus areas. Last week, we delved into applying the Pareto Principle to attain work-life balance using the SEE Life Priority Matrix. We pinpointed two criteria, Importance and Satisfaction, to categorise key areas of life like physical and emotional health, career, finances, relationships, social life, and hobbies. By employing these prioritisation principles, we recognised how

The life priority matrix (also known as the SEE Life Priority Matrix) is a technique we use in Module 1 (The Journey Within, available in Hindi and English) to help individuals prioritise work-life balance and therefore improve their quality of life.  Unfortunately, the translation in English is not available. The SEE Life Priority matrix is covered in our module 1 training