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The power of simplification: Convincing your bosses

The power of simplification: Convincing your bosses

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The power of simplification: Convincing your bosses

- [Instructor] Let's assume you believe the arguments that I've been making in this course around simplifying and focusing your audience and you like the examples I've been showing. You're all psyched up and you're ready to go and show your boss and your clients these fantastic new simpler visualizations you're creating. The first thing that's going to happen is that they might make all the same arguments you may have been thinking at the beginning of this course. They'll make all the usual excuses for more cluttered, more complex, harder to understand charts and graphs. First, let me say this, you will lose many of these battles. As I always say, my clients pay me to tell them no once. I'll make the right arguments, I'll defend my position and I'll ask them if they're sure they want to do what I don't think they should do. Actually, I'll even do it more than once, usually a few times, but in the end, it's their company, it's…

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