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I think he’s referring to the 80/20 law, or Pareto distribution.

Essentially 80% of all corporate output is performed by 20% of the workforce, and continues down each chain (of the 20% doing 80% of the work, 20% of them are doing 80% and etc…)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution

https://www.americanexpress.com/en-us/business/trends-and-in...



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