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Why Make Reform So Complicated? By Mike Schmoker
Why Make Reform So Complicated?
- Ed Week
In the realm of organizational improvement, complexity kills. It demoralizes employees and distorts the critical connection between effort and outcomes. It is the enemy of the most indispensable elements of improvement: clarity, priority, and focus.
That is the message of multiple prominent studies, from Jim Collins' 2001 best-seller Good to Great to more recent books likeThe Laws of Simplicity, by John Maeda, and Simple: Conquering the Crisis of Complexity, by Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn. These experts implore us to simplify: to prioritize, minimize, and employ only the clearest language in the service of focus. Only this will allow teams and individuals to understand, practice, and perfect those few, highest-priority skills and actions that are most critical to progress.
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