Showing posts with label Simplicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Simplicity. Show all posts

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Inspiring quotes on Simplicity


‘Understanding evolves through three phases : simplistic, complex and profoundly simple’


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William Schutz, Profound Simplicity

‘It is very difficult to teach things that are obvious (and hence difficult to learn that which is simple) because the mind takes it for granted and wants to move on to something complicated which is presumed to be more valuable.
Because we understand something, we believe we practice it. Attention to the obvious (the simple), a deliberate effort to use that which is obvious can be effective’
Edward de Bono, The Happiness Purpose

‘Small changes can bring forth great  results but these points of leverage are the least obvious’
Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline

‘What is essential is invisible to the eye. It requires the heart to see it. ‘The gap between knowing and doing is the gap between the mind and the body.

What connects the mind and the body is the heart, the breath. Therefore, the heart of the problem is the problem of the heart’

‘The skilful are not obvious. They appear simpleminded. They know the larger patterns. To know the patterns is the subtle power’
David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D

‘We are so busy trying to prove that we are okay that we forget we are magnificent’
Gay Hendricks

‘Reality is always kinder than the stories we make about it’
Byron Katie, Loving What Is


Less is More and More is Less. Slowing down can enable us to speed up. Learn to see things upside down, backside front, inside out. Embrace paradoxes. 

‘Appreciation allows depth, texture, dimension to life. Without appreciation, the world is flat. No fizz, no sparkle, no passion. To appreciate is to give life, to bestow being. Appreciation fosters connection and partnership’
Ron Bynum

Life comforts the disturbed, and disturbs the comfortable. The willingness to step out of the comfort zone simplifies life.

Learn to see how the rules of the game are shifting rapidly .. from the industrial age to  the network age. The shift from Force to Power, from hierarchical organisations to hyper-linked ecologies, from the work ethic to the play ethic, from linear, sequential approaches to non-linear, quantum realities.
Learn to see. And see to learn.
The mantra is ‘Observe. Observe.Observe’

collected by Kiran Gulrajani - writen by Kiran as well when no other mention is made

Driving Simplicity

The following work on the theme of Simplicity is the result of a co-creation between Kiran Gulrajani and myself. How to evolve your organisation from a culture of processes, initiatives, internal competition to an approach to things driven by SIMPLICITY. How to simplify?

Cultural Attribute: ENTREPRENEURIAL
Simplifier: EMBRACE PARADOXES
Slowing down can enable us to speed up

Cultural Attribute: ENTREPRENEURIAL
Simplifier: APPRECIATE THE NEW WORLD
Shift from Enforce to Empower

Cultural Attribute: PASSIONATE
Simplifier: CONTACT THE GREATNESS IN YOURSELF AND OTHERS
Authentically notice and appreciate your and other people’s strengths and contributions

Cultural Attribute: IN TOUCH
Simplifier: CONNECT THRU CONVERSATION
Shift from ‘advocacy’ to ‘enquiry’ by listening from the heart

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Common sense - Something the world is lacking

As Krugmans puts it - quoting Marvin Minsky " what people vaguely call common sense is actually more intricate than most of the technical expertise we admire." And Krugman adds: "it takes common sense to deal with the physical world - which is why , even at the end of the XX century, there are still no robot plumbers."

Friday, October 16, 2009

The Power Of Storytelling, Parable and Simplicity, An Economist Viewpoint

"There is also a deeper point: A simple story is not the same as a simplistic one. Even our little parable reveals possibilities that no amount of investigative reporting could uncover. It suggests, in particular, that what might seem to a naive commentator like a natural conclusion - if productivity growth in the steel industry reduces the number of jobs for steelworkers, then productivity growth in the economy as a whole reduces employment in the economy as a whole - may well involve a crucial fallacy of composition"

Paul Krugman, in The Accidental Theorist, 1997

Norse Storytelling in a Viking Longhouse.
This photo is published on my blog with the authorisation of Gary Waidson (© Gary Waidson 2009) and here is a link to the web site it was created for: http://www.lore-and-saga.co.uk

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