- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Business; New edition edition (5 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006532179
- ISBN-13: 978-0006532170
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 795,138 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Scary fact: business information doubles about every three years. In other words, if your job is complex now, in three years you'll have twice as much noise to sift through just to get your work done. Bill Jensen makes no bones about it: Making a job simpler is very hard work, and it's getting harder all the time. But he believes it's possible, and inSimplicity, he lays out concrete steps for managers to follow. For example, he offers a five-step process for launching a new project: know which few things are important; consider how people will feel when you move forward on these things; use the right tools; create expectations and then manage those expectations; and create a "teachable view" of what you're trying to achieve.
If you consider all five of these building blocks before launching a new project, you should be able to overcome one of the biggest problems workers have with their jobs: too much information, with too little filtering. In fact, Jensen says, about 80 per cent of business communication--meetings, e-mails, presentations, whatever--has a major problem: the information doesn't require action, or it requires action but there are no consequences of doing nothing. These building blocks can be applied to every form of communication and, most important, can be used as a formatting device to describe projects from start to finish quickly on a single sheet of paper. That'll get anyone's attention, from the boss on down to the people who actually have to do the work the project requires. It doesn't get any simpler than that. --Lou Schuler, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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How can you transform your work and your company for the new economy? By learning how to do more of what matters and less of what doesn’t.
In an increasingly complex business world, where the sheer volume of information available is multiplying exponentially, Simplicity helps people cut to the chase of what really needs to get done.
Using a powerful combination of stories, hands-on excercises and models that have worked in all types of organizations, Bill Jensen guides us thorugh what business needs to do to get simple.
This fresh, stimulating and highly practical approach to competing in the new economy gives you the power to create more flexible and productive organizations, more compelling experiences for colleagues and customers, and more fulfilling work for everyone.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There are so many business books on the market these days brimming with ideas, concepts, buzzwords and so on, but there aren't many that give you the practical tools to make a difference in the so-called 'knowledge economy'. This book is simple enough to make that difference to your working life. Based on solid research, the 'how to's in this book are extremely valuable and go way beyond the usual 'good advice' prescribed by the myriad business titles available. This is one of those books that stands head and shoulders above the rest, living its message, delivering the goods, and it will enable you to do the same. Buy it, absorb the contents, apply them, then watch as your life becomes more effective and - yes, simpler.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Sorry, but this book made simplicity seem very complicated. Far too many statistics, lists of things to do, processes etc. Not much spirit.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have often thought that many areas of business were overly complex and I was looking forward to some insights into making things simpler. Instead this book consists of a muddle of buzzwords and incoherent wooly thinking. Almost every page includes either a checklist, diagram or random quotation that seems to have very little relevance to what’s around it. The overall message, if there really is one, is lost amid a sea of “Chapter Punchline”s, “Aha! Moment”s and “MessageMap™”s.
A better title of this book would have been “Confusion”
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