Do you often feel like your work day is cluttered with too many steps, processes, meetings, messages, rules, trainings, software programs, and gizmos? If so, it might be time to think about where you can cut back.
In a recent WSJ article, organizational change expert Robert Sutton describes the benefits of the ‘subtraction method’ in business and how it can help preserve you and your team’s creative energy, motivation, resources, and sanity. Read on to learn how you can minimize needless complexity at work.
Robert Sutton is a top organizational change keynote speaker, Stanford Professor, and the New York Times bestselling author of Scaling Up Excellence, Good Boss, Bad Boss, and The No Asshole Rule. He also speaks about and is working on The Friction Project. It focuses on why organizations make the right things too hard to do, the wrong things too easy, and how skilled leaders and organizational designers can avert and overcome these obstacles.
This article was originally published by BigSpeak Sep 27, 2022.
