Simplicity is about changing how we use people's time and attention at work. Even at top performing and most admired companies, work is becoming way too complex. Making the complex clear always helps people work smarter because it's a lot easier to figure out what's important and ignore what isn't. We're living in a world of infinite choices too much of our time and attention is being diverted from the important stuff. We need the power of simplicity.
Companies are horrific wasters of our time.
Most employers and Teammates even the well-intentioned ones make things far too complicated and actually make it hard to work smarter. The book is based on seven years of research with over 460 companies that found the biggest sources of work complexity all had to do with how we share and organize what we know how unclear we are as we ask people to work smarter. Business is not very good at meeting the needs of most knowledge workers. Section 2, Simpler Workdays, details exactly what anyone can do to create a simpler workday for him or herself. Its focus is to help people use time differently.