Simple Solutions
Harness the Power of Passion
and Simplicity to Get Results

Simple Solutions is a great road map for leaders of all organizations. This book provides clear, concise and straightforward guidelines for leadership.

Simple Solutions energetically applauds those leaders who can “boil things down to their very essence” – who can provide focus by bringing complex problems down to a simple problem statement.

Once the leader simplifies his or her own job, he needs to then become an evangelist for simplification among his employees. Too often leaders allow subordinates to swallow their time with problems that are not clear. Leaders must encourage team members to go back and take some time to get to the heart of the issue before bringing it to them to support or solve.

In Simple Solutions, simplicity remains the key focus throughout the book. The contents of each chapter are easy to follow and the reader will quickly find himself immersed in the subject matter.

Schmitt and Perl provides their readers with a “simple” road map with chapter titles that include:

1. Simplicity: The Foundation of Leadership
2. Management Savvy
3. Ambition
4. People Skills
5. Leadership
6. Collaboration
7. Vision
8. Time Management
9. Focus
10. Execution
11. Determination
12. Keep It Simple!

Simple Solutions is clear that when it comes to leadership, simple is better complex.

One very important element of simple focus is to keep your eye on the actual results. This means focusing on the impact that activities, initiatives, and projects are intended to produce.

Too often leaders put a great deal of time into rolling out a new initiative that is intended to take the organization to new heights, only to allow the team to get sidetracked with outside issues all along the way.

The “simple solutions” to the above issue is to approach results with a laser beam rather than a flood light. While a flood light certainly lights the path in front of you, it also takes in all the peripheral scenery that can take your eyes off the beaten path. The laser light harnesses your thoughts and energy to one single path, keep you squarely focused on where you need to go.

The authors subscribe to McKenzie’s approach to simplicity: “All good things come in threes.” The three takeaways from Simple Solutions are:

1. Keep it simple
2. Keep your tools and passions in balance
3. Become a disciple of Simple Solutions

We encourage our readers to add this Simple Solutions to their personal leadership library.

Arnold Perl is a Partner at the national labor and employment law firm of Ford & Harrison, LLP.

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