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Less Is More « Manage By Walking Around — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:57:43 +0000

[...] thinking about how to apply simplicity of design to organizations. In doing so, I stumbled up Michael Hyatt’s blog post with the following four tips on eliminating organizational [...]

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:17:56 +0000

[...] Hyatt: When Less is More — Michael Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson publishers, says following the practice of “less [...]

By: Pam Hogeweide

Pam Hogeweide — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:38:04 +0000

small is so totally the new sexy.

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By: PattiM

PattiM — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:59:21 +0000

Great post as always. I especially like #3 the value of the process. I tend to cut to the chase on issues and try to see the big picture before changing a process for an one off exception. Drives me nuts spending time debating the one off instead of thinking outside the box to move the group forward. I've threatened to make the whole group stand through those debates just to shorten them.

By: Marc V

Marc V — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:03:44 +0000

Looks like the pendulum is swinging the other way. A few years back there was a strong push to "empower" employees and have bottom-up managing. Accomplishing this meant extra meetings with all employees, forming subcommittees, having heads of subcommittees meet with upper management, more meetings to explain policies, additional meetings to air out grievances against the new policies, etc.

I'll be curious to see how long it takes the pendulum to swing back. The complaints will start when some important decision is made from a meeting of only three people that affects hundreds, but yet they didn't get MY opinion on it, by golly.

By: Joseph_Cole

Joseph_Cole — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:13:13 +0000

As a pastor of a small, rural church, we need to streamline what we believe success looks like in order to move forward.

As ministry leaders, we tend to hold on to things like schedules and places as indicators of our success (e.g. We meet every Thursday at Frank's house.). As long as we have a place and time we have had success.

This creates confusion for me, as I struggle to evaluate our effectiveness. I am given ambiguous reports on the happenings of the congregation and am at a loss as to what to do afterward.

I believe our streamlining must occur in these abstract concepts such as this more so than physical and time resources. We don't have very much of physical resources, programs and meetings to streamline. So, we're probably fortunate in that sense.

By: paulmerrill

paulmerrill — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:53:50 +0000

Thomas Nelson is leading the way, Michael. Your leadership is evident in posts like this.

Keep up the good work and the being a good example for others!

By: Martin Richardson

Martin Richardson — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:36:42 +0000

Great post, in one of my industries(HR), certain forms need to be challenged. If they're leaving a big paper-trail and can't be updated and stored via technology like others we use, should we use them? They create excess work and are wasteful.

As far as groups go for meetings, I couldn't agree with you more; so many times is it unnecessary to have everyone present. Why make someone more involved in something they don't need to be in when they could be focusing on and achieving something else for the organization? Opportunity cost.

By: Michael Sliwinski

Michael Sliwinski — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:40:24 +0000

Processes – I've just came back from the GTD Summit and it inspired me to finish new processes for the Productive Magazine to make sure I don't get each issue out after months… but on a monthly basis instead.

It was a great fun to actually design these processes and now it's even more fun implementig it. Let's see how it goes.

Same thing applies to my Nzobe development.

I use Mindmapping tools to design processes and brainstorm ideas how to make things simpler and where to automate stuff.

By: Marla Taviano

Marla Taviano — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:13:46 +0000

I love simple.