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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Did you know that the first man to die during the construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during the construction?
Did you know that:
*During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room.
In a lifetime, the average clean-shaven man will spend five months shaving and will remove 28ft of hair.
The first man to die during planning & construction of the Hoover Dam was the father of the last man to die during its construction. December 20, 1922 with J.G. Tierney a Bureau of Reclamation employee who was part of a geological survey and drowned when he fell from a barge. Exactly 13 years later, in 1935, his son Patrick W. Tierney, fell to his death from an intake tower.
The 80/20 Rule means that in anything a few (20 percent) are vital and many(80 percent) are trivial. In Pareto's case it meant 20 percent of the people owned 80 percent of the wealth. In Juran's initial work he identified 20 percent of the defects causing 80 percent of the problems. Project Managers know that 20 percent of the work (the first 10 percent and the last 10 percent) consume 80 percent of your time and resources. You can apply the 80/20 Rule to almost anything, from the science of management to the physical world.20% of the work force does 80% of the work.
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