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Today’s screed is about dumbing it down and how it can improve your business thinking as you grow dumb.  I’m pretty sure you’re aware that I’m not an advocate for the willfully stupid among us.  They might be spending too much time behind the wheel of the car in front of you to be reading this anyway.  However, I do find myself trying to reduce things to their most basic elements a great deal of the time. It’s not that I don’t care about detail – sometimes there’s a lot of important stuff in there. But I find that the details tend to clutter up one’s mind when you’re trying to have a basic understanding of something – it’s like worrying about what color the room will be before you’ve figured out the square footage and the amount of paint needed so you can budget properly. Continue reading →