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A simple post about leadership

I'm reminded -- and I need to remind myself -- that leadership is made up of many things.  One component that I want to emphasize today is simplicity. Leadership is about making things simple. The world is a complex thing. In fact, the fourth law of business is that businesses tend to complexity.  The leader of a business must fight this complexity -- and communicate simplicity to the world, to customers, and to employees. 

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» What Does Society Overcomplicate? from Ben Casnocha: The Blog
Andy Sack once wrote that "Leadership is about making things simple." I've been thinking about what ideas are overcomplicated in society (usually to benefit one of those pirate-in-necktie capitalists). Here are a few I thought of: 1. Losing Weight -- [Read More]

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I couldn't agree more. Costco's leadership preaches this point over and over. I think it's universally true.

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