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Are you creating complexity?

Are you creating complexity?

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Are you creating complexity?

- Let's do a quick exercise, I want you to pat your head, rub your stomach, and click your heels. Ready? Go. Okay, stop. Did you do all three things at the same time? Why? I didn't tell you to do all three things simultaneously. It's a simple exercise but it shows how we complicate things without meaning to. Complexity is often something we do out of habit. But here's the thing, changing our habits is within our control. Think of complexity as a bullseye with you at the center. Complexity beyond our control includes things like government policies and laws, or organizational complexity like siloed org structures and corporate-wide policies. These are driven by larger processes that we didn't create. Our experiences here make us feel that complexity is put upon us. But when you think about what consumes most of your time, it's tactical complexity. Meetings, emails, presentations, and reports. Tactical complexity is made up of things we put in place to manage our work and that we have…

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