A tiny but pivotal moment in IBM's legendary turnaround reveals a better approach. Lou Gerstner was new to his post as CEO and had invi...

Roosevelt’s knack for simplifying ideas grabbed the attention of the press and public. He was the first president to summarize his entire le...

Storytelling played a role in the formative years of Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt. Roosevelt became a “ferocious reader,” writes Goodwin. Book...

Charlie O. Simms taught a journalism 101 class in Beverly Hills High School. He started the first day of the class Nora Ephron attended muc...

Companies all over the world are embracing digital transformation — the use of new (or already existing) technological capabilities — as the...

When you start telling a story to a friend or colleague, you automatically start thinking about all the different pieces you want to remembe...

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann As quoted in " How to simplify...

The Heath brothers in their seminal book “ Made to Stick ” defined simple in this way: “What we mean by ‘simple’ is finding the core of the...

Effective communications: a combination of four approaches: 1. Leaders who have to tell and retell a story over and over again should remi...

Understanding evolves through three phases: simplistic, complex, and profoundly simple. William Schutz As quoted in  Beyond Performance 2.0:...

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences. Aristotle  Rhetori...

We are so caught up in the complexity and clamor of our way of life that we do not realize how much all of these powerful efforts to attr...

In every successful transformation effort that I have seen, the guiding coalition develops a picture of the future that is relatively eas...

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can unde...

[GM CEO Mary Barra said,] “A lot gets set aside when you’re going through a restructuring process, so it was an opportunity to really de...

When it comes time to break a horse, the Havasupai have a simpler, far more sensible approach than western cowboys. They lead the horse out...

Not long ago I spoke at a company meeting about the challenges of complexity in organizations. At one point, I asked the audience members t...

If we’re doing our job as leaders, a performance review should only be two columns: Column A is what you do great and Column B is what you ...

Today, most assume that Xbox was somehow destined to be a winner, but having been Microsoft’s chief Xbox officer, I am here to report that ...

My favorite communication technique is what I call the Twitter-friendly headline. Whenever you launch a new product or service, clearly su...