The Simplicity Cycle

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While looking ahead to tomorrow’s challenges and opportunities, leaders must simultaneously guide their teams along the path today, toward a finish line that may be invisible to most others.

make them more complicated in order to make them better

As Henry Petroski explained in his book Small Things Considered, “We think, therefore we design. Indeed, there is barely anything we do, much less use, that does not have a design component to it.”

A leader’s job is in some sense to see the future, to cast a vision of what could be.

How we use a map depends on who we are, where we are trying to go, and how we plan to get there.

the map is not the territory, and studying a map is no substitute for an actual expedition. The only way to really know what is out there is to go see for yourself.

Which turn should you take? That depends on where you’re coming from and where you want to go.

but it can’t pick your destination for you, nor can it dictate which route you should take.

goodness matters more than simplicity, but the two attributes are connected in important ways.