#283: Simplify your focus

Just for a change I stopped thinking about this recession. Instead, I thought about its implications. Will it change us? If so, how?

Questions triggered no doubt by all these articles celebrating Darwin’s birth. They reminded me that Darwin believed those who are most adaptable to change will survive.

Here’s the interesting bit. Many people, believers and non-believers in the theory alike, assume that evolution leads to greater complexity.

Well, guess what. Some experts argue that a creature can adapt by becoming simpler, not more complex. In other words, ‘survival of the fittest’ could mean ‘survival of the simplest’.

The debate is ongoing, but I’m not going to wait to see who wins – complexity or simplicity. A simplified life-style seems awfully appealing right now.

Come to think of it, so does a simplified organization. We used to called it strategic focus.



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