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1. Don't Complicate ... Just Simplify
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Once upon a time in a land not far from were
you are, there lived a successful entrepreneur.
His fame was known and acknowledged
throughout the land.
He was successful in starting,buying and
selling business after business. His motto was "
the simpler the better ". As his enterprise grew,
so did his need to hire people to run, maintain
and grow his organization.
This entrepreneur was a curious person, he
loved to travel to distant lands to see new ideas,
products and organizations. On one such trip
he came across a wonderful widget business. It was simple and profitable, his favourite word after
simple.
Clapping his hands in delight at the simplicity of it all, he bought the business. His many managers said
he should bring it under their big umbrella, to learn their ways. He wasn't sure, he thought it should be
left alone. After many conversations they prevailed and this wonderful, simple and profitable stand
alone was brought under his managers watchful eyes.
Secretly they feared its simplicity. It had to be taught their ways. It had to learn to send memo's every
day, to fill out the correct forms, to have meetings about the forms and memo's. This was the
managers way to show the entrepreneur that he was right in hiring them and they had the correct forms
to show they were right.
Now this simple and profitable business had people who knew what they were doing and were kind and
simple people. When the outsiders came in with all their forms and meetings, they became sad. Sad,
because they couldn't work on the business in their way any more. They were too busy filling out forms
and going to meetings.
As time went on the kind people got sadder. The sadder they became, the more they yearned for their
simple business. The more they yearned the sadder they became. Until one by one they left the once
simple business. The entrepreneur kept asking his managers how the simple and profitable business
was doing and they said " wonderful, they are learning our ways "
After twelve months had gone by, the entrepreneur was sitting down with his favourite accountant. He
liked him because he told him the truth. He was looking forward to seeing the profits from this simple
business. He couldn't understand why his accountant kept looking away and tried to evade his
questions about the simple business. At last he said " tell me the truth ".
The simple business was no longer profitable. It was losing money. It had lost all the kind and good
people who had made it wonderful. The entrepreneur cried. He went home and thought about what
happened. He decided he was going to find all the kind and good people and give them back their
business and freedom from his managers.
It took him time and energy but he did what he set out to do. After another twelve months he asked his

2. accountant how the simple and profitable business was doing. He was amazed and happy to hear, it
was profitable again.
He scolded his managers for making the simple business complicated. From that day forward all
managers had to swear an oath to one rule, or be thrown on the street " Don't complicate ... Just
simplify "
The End.
Colin Myles
Author & Listener
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