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Making the complex clear so we can all work not harder, but more efficiently.

Simplicity is the disciplined use of one skill and one tool, applied in infinite ways:
· knowing how to get what you need to make a decison
· organizing and sharing information so people will do something with it.

The greatest challenge that people and companies face isn’t from the competition, the marketplace or anything else ‘out there’. It is from confusion within our own organizations. Companies have to learn how to manage the ever-increasing complexity that characterizes work for ever-increasing numbers of people. Because despite ever faster and more sophisticated computer power and a decade of right-sizing and re-engineering, work still isn’t getting any easier. We’re all drowning in information and need better ways to organize, communicate, solve problems and make decisions.

With constant change and whiplash timeframes, the biggest investment any company makes is likely to be the time it takes everyone to figure out what everything means so they can make successful decisions. Making the right choices – fast, while everything’s changing – is now the hardest part of getting our work done. Make the complex clear, expose the patterns within apparently chaotic changes, and you compete more effectively.

Simplicity is an information revolution whose mission is to do just that. It’s about creating the ‘right kind’ of order. Order that still encourages dynamic change, experimentation, emergence of ideas, innovation and learning. This entertaining, compelling and thought-provoking guide shows how work and organizations can be structured in ways that create meaning, connections, patterns and knowledge.

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This is the age of information overload. In a world where people's time and attention are scarce, the only way to stay sane and actually get any work done is to simplify – to focus on what matters most and not waste your time on the rest.

Businesses worldwide are rushing to transform into knowledge based competitors in the information age. But the greatest challenge that people and companies face is not competition, the marketplace, or nay external force; it is from within the organisation. Companies and individuals have to learn how to manage the ever-increasing complexity that characterises work – or someone else is going to get there first

In 'Simplicity', Bill Jensen offers a highly engaging and pragmatic approach to competing in the fast-paced information age by being disciplined about how you make sense of everything around you. Drawing on a ground-breaking study of over 2500 people in 460 companies, Jensen presents new tools and strategies for applying common sense and critical thinking to any business situation – from running more effective meetings to leading large-scale change programmes. Where technology, information science and management theory meet, Jensen offers a vision of how work and organisations can be structured in ways that create knowledge but not information overload.

'Simplicity' is about working smarter, not harder. It gives you the power to create more flexible and productive organisations, more compelling experiences for colleagues and customers, and more fulfilling work for everyone.

Bill Jensen is President and CEO of The Jensen Group, a New Jersey based-changed and communication consulting firm specialising in Change Management, Change Communication and building new Knowledge Management Structures. The Jensen Group's clients include Fortune 500 companies such as PepsiCo, Merck, Citibank and IBM. Jensen has spoken widely on the idea of simplicity as a management concept and, in collaboration with Northern Illinois University, designed, organised, and implemented the five-year study of over 460 companies and 2500 workers on which 'Simplicity' is based. He lives in Morristown, New Jersey.

How to transform your work – and your company – by learning how to do more of what matters and less of what doesn't.

· Simplicity is:
· All about competing on clarity
· Being disciplined about how you make sense of things
· Being passionate about how you use other people's time and attention
· When everyone knows how to get what they need to make a decision