這三個乍看之下不搭的東西是今天的主題。對于已經有100年歷史，并經過管理學者家Joseph M. Juran延伸的80/20法則（帕雷托法則Pareto principle在1906年由義大利經濟學者Vilfredo Pareto提出；Joseph M. Juran延伸定義為80/20 principle）而言，這已經是一種現象與經驗，同時也是改善組織、企業、國家，什至個人效益的好方法與理論。即便是新近的長尾理論（The Longtail），也不可避免地是先從80/20法則而改造、顛覆，兩者卻又與菁英主義有關。
我想說得是，菁英主義不盡然是負分，它是一個指標，也是不同理論中都會實際碰到的問題。任何領域的專業人才，都會是各行各業的菁英，而菁英份子能產出80％的效益。
在許多的實際經驗與現象，80％的結果是由20％的原因所決定的。如下：
線上游戲魔獸世界（WOW）里面80％的副本攻略，都是由排名前20％的公會所首殺或完成。
一個公司的營運成果中的80％由20％的各部門員工所創造。而主要創造業績的業務部門，當中有20％的業務人員能拿到 主站蜘蛛池模板： | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |