Complexity is everywhere. The more complex things become, the fewer of us understand them and the harder it is to come to agreement and reach a decision…or a solution. We overload everything with unending charts and graphs and facts and details and just for good measure throw in anything that just, possibly, perhaps might someday add a teeny tiny bit of something or other.
So many try and hide the fact that they are too cowardly to just distill it all down and clearly state the basic facts. They are unwilling to come out for something that we all can understand so obfuscate everything behind piles and piles of irrelevant things to make it as hard as possible for us to understand. I suppose they think this makes them seem erudite but mostly it makes them seem incapable of clear thinking and judgement.
Most things have only a few key and critical items necessary to explain them in a way that all can understand. Most things have only a few key and critical items that lead to success or failure. Most things have only a few key and critical issues needing rapid resolution.
The most things I’m talking about include your business as well as just about everything your business does. At any point in time only a small part of what goes on is really critical for the life or death of your business…critical for successful growth and profitability.
And yet, we treat everything as equally important and overwhelm everyone with so many things to do and details about how to do them and explanations about what we want done that we lose the basic concepts of clarity, understanding, freedom to act, and thus the ideas, creativity, and innovation that come from letting the mind roam without overwhelming it with flotsam and jetsam.
We lose the wisdom that lives in the minds of our people.
Simplicity of thought is difficult to achieve. It takes effort to distill things down to their essentials and bravery to give only these essentials as guidance.
Effort and bravery that will be well rewarded as you realize that with clarity and trust in others comes simplicity and with simplicity comes more rapid decisions and quicker execution to solve those things that really are the critical factors for future success.
And everyone will understand and be included.