make everything as simple as possible but no simpler
Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being Rob Cross Harvard Business Review Press (September 2021) How to avoid “the death of a thousand cuts” from inefficient communication and collaboration According to Rob Cross,”We endure…
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads 2021: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (October 2020) How to balance “today’s existential imperatives with leadership for the long term” Although these HBR articles…
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Simply Brilliant: Powerful Techniques to Unlock Your Creativity and Spark New Ideas Bernhard Schroeder AMACOM (October 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein In Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All, Tom Kelley…
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Think Simple: How Smart Leaders Defeat Complexity Ken Segall Penguin/Portfolio, An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s admonition helps to create a context for Ken Segall’s brilliant…
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The Daily Edge: Simple Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Make an Impact Every Day David Horsager Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2015) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein The narrative consists of 35 “Tips” on how to accelerate…
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Marty Neumeier obviously agrees with Albert Einstein who urged years ago, “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” In his latest book, THE BRAND FLIP: Why customers now run companies and how to profit from it, Neumeier identifies…
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Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World Donald N. Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2015) How and why simple rules help to accelerate personal growth and executive development First, I want to share two of…
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In his latest book, The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator’s Guide to Creativity, Marty Neumeier observes, “Most people have a built-in bias toward addition instead of subtraction. For some reason, the concept of ‘more’ comes naturally to us. Yet…
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Here is a brief article by Josh Linkner during which he shares his thoughts about how to get to what Oliver Wendell Holmes once characterized as “simplicity on the other side of complexity.” This is what Albert Einstein also had…
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What are the defining characteristics of an agile organization?
Many years ago, Jack Welch was asked why he highly admired small organizations. GE’s then chairman and CEO offered this response: “There are several reasons. For one, they communicate better. Without the din and prattle of bureaucracy, people listen as…
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