Reduce Complexity To Go Faster

Happy New Year to you all. Whilst this past festive season will probably go down in history as one of our least favourite, the new year brings a focus on what we want to achieve as we look to a - hopefully - much better future for us all.

In terms of that future, some of these things will be simple - to see our loved ones, go out for dinner, host friends in our homes or go on holiday. Isn’t it interesting how these all seem - right now at the time of writing and reading - almost impossible to imagine?

Even so, and in terms of our professionals lives, if 2020 was the year to ‘slow and grow’ and 2021 is the year to ‘go’, then the question at the front of my mind is simply this: how can we ‘go faster’ this year? Whether that is to go faster to grow our business, go faster to get a promotion, go faster to acquire additional skills, or go faster to achieve the performance we want?

As leaders and influencers, the answer has to be built around two words: reduce complexity. Whether it’s in a process, a communication, a strategy, a task, an answer to a question, a pitch, a story, a suggestion, an idea, an approach, an activity.

Reduce complexity. Increase agility. Reduce costs. In that spirit and for this first post of 2021, I have aimed to reflect that approach. For us all, I encourage a focus on one simple question with whatever we are doing at work: ‘how can I reduce complexity to go faster?’

Here’s to a much better year…..