The Simplicity Principle: Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World

Produktdetails

Verlag

KOGAN PAGE

Erschienen

2020

Sprache

English

Seiten

264

Infos

264 Seiten
207 mm x 139 mm

ISBN

978-1-78966-355-6

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
• Section - ONE: Hexagon thinking's six principles;
• • Chapter - 01: KISS - Keep it simple;
  • Chapter - 02: The individual snowflake;
  • Chapter - 03: Playing for time;
  • Chapter - 04: Networks - Build your hive;
  • Chapter - 05: Knowledge;
  • Chapter - 06: Saturn Saturdays - Rest;
• Section - TWO: Hexagon doing;
• • Chapter - 07: Checklist chapter - From thinking to doing;
  • Chapter - 08: Time zones;
  • Chapter - 09: Be the bee - Individuality;
  • Chapter - 10: The network effect;
  • Chapter - 11: Knowledge dashboards;
  • Chapter - 12: On the sixth day - Rest

Besprechung

"It's the question of our modern times: how to recapture simplicity in our lives so we can once again connect with ourselves. And in this book our Editor-at-Large Julia Hobsbawm has given us an answer: by using the shape and pattern of nature. Her six-word mantra - Keep it Simple, Learn From Nature - shows us how we can use the power of the world around us to change our lives for the better." Arianna Huffington, Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

Kurztext / Annotation

Learn how to develop a clear and calm way to be more creative, gain greater focus and reclaim productivity.

Langtext

WINNER: American Book Fest Best Book Award 2020 - Business: General
WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2020 - Self-Help: General
SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2021 - Personal Development & Wellbeing

Modern life is complicated, much more so than it used to be. Acclaimed author and social entrepreneur, Julia Hobsbawm, shows you a simpler way.

The Simplicity Principle challenges the assumption that all things that are complex have to stay that way. It helps keep things as lean, simple and focused as possible.

Smartphone users experience concentration interruptions every 12 minutes of the day, there are over 250 billion emails sent every 24 hours and by 2021 the internet will have created more than 3.3 zettabytes of data. Yet complexity doesn't have to dominate, complicate or clutter our lives. Based on a hexagonal model, this book shows you that it's easy to streamline and simplify both your professional and personal lives with lessons based on the natural world.

For anyone who feels that life can be too much, The Simplicity Principle will help you break free of the endless choices and complexities that we face in the world today. It's time to gain control of your focus and productivity, and most importantly, KEEP IT SIMPLE.

Beschreibung für Leser

Ausgezeichnet: NYC Business Book Awards, 2020.
Ausgezeichnet: American Book Fest Book Award, 2020

Über den AutorIn

Julia Hobsbawm is an entrepreneur and writer who addresses the problems and solutions of humans in the machine age. Described by James Harding, Founder of Tortoise Media, former Editor of the Times and of BBC News as 'one of the most important public intellectuals in the UK'. She is Honorary Visiting Professor of Workplace Social Health at London's CASS Business School. Her book: Social Health in an Age of Overload was shortlisted for Management Book of the Year and Business Book of the Year. She is the founder of the acclaimed connection company Editorial Intelligence and Editor-at-Large of Thrive Global. She was awarded an OBE in The Queen's Birthday Honours for services to business.