From the course: Boosting Your Team's Productivity
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10 questions for better simplifying
From the course: Boosting Your Team's Productivity
10 questions for better simplifying
- One of my go-to stories for simplification is about Steve Jobs at Apple. Jobs was known for being focused and highly productive, despite encountering thousands of distractions every day. To encourage his senior leaders to follow this mindset, Jobs would ask them a simple question: how many times did you say no today? It's a wise question, because if we're saying no to irrelevant things every day, we're on the path to simplification. And one way to stay on path is by identifying opportunities to simplify our daily work. To accomplish this, my team works with our clients to answer a set of questions that determines whether or not tasks or processes have been simplified as much as possible. And to help us remember what makes something simplified, my team and I use a funny acronym: MURA, which stands for Minimal Understandable, Repeatable, and Accessible. To find out if everything on your to-do list is as minimal as possible, ask, if I could limit the work I provide to other functions…
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