10 Ways to Be Successfully Lazy in Business

The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 Rule, dictates that 20 percent of your effort produces 80 percent of your success.What about the other 80 percent of what you do? Some of it might be useful, but most of it is useless busywork that doesn't contribute a dime to your bottom line. The trick is identifying the important stuff -- the 20 percent -- and ditching the rest. Sounds easy, right? Maybe, but if that's true, why are so many of us still stuck with so much busywork?