Strategy Principles – Simplicity

In order to be effective, good strategy must be simple.

Simple to understand.

Simple to communicate.

Simple to execute.

As strategists, our job is to achieve simplicity while not sacrificing the quality in our content or purpose. We are the ones who lead people to the simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity.

Today’s Management Tip of the Day from the Harvard Business Review presents three C’s to help you and your organization eliminate complexity and achieve simplicity:

1. Collaboration. Silos are the enemy of simplicity. Work across the organization to identify where the complexity is and together improve the way business is done.
2. Coordination. Smooth coordination is critical to finding simple solutions to the problems you’re trying to solve.
3. Communication. Once you’ve gotten rid of complexity, you can be sure it will try to find its way back in. Open and regular communication will allow you to identify it before it takes hold.

One thing they point out is that simple doesn’t necessarily mean easy. Our goal as kingdom strategists is to find creative and effective ways to share Christ and advance the kingdom. It is our duty to remove as much friction from the process as possible because we do not want to create any unnecessary obstacles for the people we are serving. We have an obligation make whatever we do as simple as possible, even it doing so makes our situation harder.

You can read the full article here.

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