Simplification Toolkit ─ How to Escape the Complexity Trap and Get to Work That Matters

As a tactical ancillary to the book Why Simple Wins, this toolkit is designed with 13 tools to enable leaders and teams to move beyond the cycle of busywork and toward a culture where valuable, essential work is the norm. By learning how to eliminate redundancies, communicate with clarity, and make simplification a habit, we can recognize which activities are time-sucks and which create lasting value. Eliminating low-value work translates into individuals who feel less overwhelmed, more empowered, and able to spend each day doing things that matter.

The Why Simple Wins Toolkit includes the following 13 tools, techniques, and tips to help you do more valuable work every day:

—Leadership Complexity Quiz
—Complexity Diagnostic
—Simplicity Vision Statement
—Leadership Task Log
—50 Questions for Simplifying
—Simplification Worksheet
—Killing Complexity
—Kill a Stupid Rule
—Simplification Tactics
—Simplification Metrics
—Simplification Code of Conduct
—Interview Questions for Hiring Simplifiers
—Simplification Resources

Lisa Bodell believes in the power of simplification.

She is the founder and CEO of futurethink, a company that uses simple techniques to help organizations embrace change and increase their capability for innovation. Bodell has transformed teams within organizations like Google, Novartis, Accenture, HBO, and more. She brings her compelling message to over 100,000 people a year, showing them how to eliminate mundane and unnecessary tasks from their everyday routine so that they have more time for work that matters.

Drawing on her practical Midwestern upbringing and entrepreneurial background, she has used the power of simplification to launch three successful businesses, write two books (Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins), travel to over 40 countries and 48 states, and sit on boards such as Novartis’ Diversity and Inclusion Board and the Global Advisory Council for the World Economic Forum.