Be brave enough to keep it simple

Lovely piece of wisdom in that quote.

In all of my work as a sounding board to leaders and to teams, I have never (never!) found an occasion where it was important for them to make things more complicated in order to get their message across, to get alignment, agreement, engagement, energy, enthusiasm, motivation etc.

I’ve written on this site many times away simplicity and will do so again today, but today I will focus on why there is demand for specialists like me to support change.

It comes down to one word. Bravery.

Some people are not brave, some people don’t believe they are (but have untapped and powerful depths of courage awaiting being unleashed), some have bravery by the bucketload and simply need it focussed in the right way.

Let us explore some.

Bravery and Entrepreneurs

Let us start with Entrepreneurs. I wrote about this in this post, noting:

A real entrepreneur has no choice. That’s it. Being an entrepreneur and working with entrepreneurs, when I ask people why they started their business, the answer always contains something…