Book

Why Simple Wins

Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters

Lisa Bodell

Routledge, 2016

Buy the book

Read, Listen, or Discuss

Amazon Kindle Discuss

1×

Melden Sie sich an, um die Audiozusammenfassung anzuhören.

Editorial Rating

getAbstract Rating

Applicable
Concrete Examples
Engaging

Recommendation

Innovation expert Lisa Bodell shares ideas, diagnostic exercises, activities and tools to help leaders simplify corporate environments. She helps leaders embrace simplification as a habit. Bodell provides tools for getting started – often the biggest hurdle – while offering advice for people up and down the corporate ladder. Her well-defined exercises are engaging and useful. If you’re ready to create simplified processes for long-term benefit, here’s your open door.

Summary

You can cultivate the skill of simplification.

Multitasking, inefficiency and unnecessary tasks seem to be part of the new norm. You recognize the signs: reading through emails while on a conference call, finalizing a report from home, adjusting your schedule to respond to a colleague abroad or spending time on a live chat to resolve a mistake on a bill. These are manifestations of complexity, which creates a frustrating sense of ineffectiveness. Complexity can sap your energy, leading you to work hard while feeling as if nothing positive comes of your efforts.

To create a sense of meaning in your work, cast off a complexity-driven mind-set and embrace simplicity. Begin with what you control, and reach out from that to foster an effective, innovative organization in which staff members feel accomplished and constructive.

Though people don’t exercise it enough, simplification is a skill that you can learn and use. Companies of all sizes can embrace simplification, a perpetual process that people must integrate into moments and decisions at any of their organizations. Leaders can evolve into “chief simplification...

About the Author

Author of Kill the Company, Lisa Bodell is founder and CEO of FutureThink, which helps businesses embrace simple techniques that drive innovation.

Why Simple Wins

Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters

Read, Listen, or Discuss

Editorial Rating

getAbstract Rating

Recommendation

Summary

You can cultivate the skill of simplification.

About the Author

My Highlights

Comment on this summary

More on this topic

By the same author

Kill the Company

Learners who read this summary also read

The Power of Simplicity

Simple

Simply Effective

How Complicated Is Your Company?

The Power of Less

Waging War on Complexity Costs

Related Skills