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Keep it Simple Stupid

By Carl Beuke, Ph.D. on August 13, 2011 in You're Hired

Modern business is in love with the complex and advanced. The ‘strategic' is better than the ‘operational'. Frontline managers want to do courses aimed at company directors, rather than basic management courses. Incomprehensibility is taken as a sign of genius. But are we forgetting something important? Read More

Algebra

Submitted by Richard Bellush on August 13, 2011 - 7:25pm.

My superannuated but impossible to dislike math teacher back (rather far back) in high school always told his students, "Use your head so you don't have to use your head." He meant, of course, that we should find the simplest way to solve a problem. Many of my worst mistakes since then have involved forgetting the advice.

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Submitted by Carl Beuke, Ph.D. on August 14, 2011 - 5:08am.

Thanks for your comment Richard. Wise advice...

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Submitted by Black Mamba on August 15, 2011 - 11:19am.

It was Malcolm Gladwell that said 10,000 hours and not 10,000 little things. Small point.

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Submitted by Carl Beuke, Ph.D. on August 16, 2011 - 1:36pm.

Thanks for your comment Black Mamba. I wasn't intending to quote (or misquote) anyone. I haven't read that particular article by Gladwell, though I like his work.

I think the 10,000 hours finding originated in this article by Ericsson:

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&uid=1993-40718-001

...which is cited and described in this fulltext article from the Brain & Behavioural Sciences:

http://cogprints.org/656/1/innate.htm

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Carl Beuke, Ph.D., is a psychologist working in management and leadership. He works with the New Zealand Prisons Service and Ministry for the Environment, among others.

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