The Simplicity Principle: Six Steps Towards Clarity in a Complex World

by Julia Hobsbawm

Overview

WINNER: American Book Fest Best Book Award 2020 - Business: General
WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2020 - Self-Help: General
SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2021 - Personal Development & Wellbeing

Modern life is complicated, much more so than it used to be. Acclaimed author and social entrepreneur, Julia Hobsbawm, shows you a simpler way.

The Simplicity Principle challenges the assumption that all things that are complex have to stay that way. It helps keep things as lean, simple and focused as possible.

Smartphone users experience concentration interruptions every 12 minutes of the day, there are over 250 billion emails sent every 24 hours and by 2021 the internet will have created more than 3.3 zettabytes of data. Yet complexity doesn't have to dominate, complicate or clutter our lives. Based on a hexagonal model, this book shows you that it's easy to streamline and simplify both your professional and personal lives with lessons based on the natural world.

For anyone who feels that life can be too much, The Simplicity Principle will help you break free of the endless choices and complexities that we face in the world today. It's time to gain control of your focus and productivity, and most importantly, KEEP IT SIMPLE.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789663556
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	04/28/2020
Pages:	264
Sales rank:	1,099,278
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Julia Hobsbawm is an entrepreneur and writer who address the problems and solutions of humans in the machine age. She was described by James Harding, former editor of The Times and of BBC News and founder of Tortoise Media, as 'one of the most important public intellectuals in the UK'. She is Honorary Visiting Professor of Workplace Social Health at London's Cass Business School.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 00: Introduction; * Section - ONE: Hexagon thinking’s six principles; ** Chapter - 01: KISS – Keep it simple; ** Chapter - 02: The individual snowflake; ** Chapter - 03: Playing for time; ** Chapter - 04: Networks – Build your hive; ** Chapter - 05: Knowledge; ** Chapter - 06: Saturn Saturdays – Rest; * Section - TWO: Hexagon doing; ** Chapter - 07: Checklist chapter – From thinking to doing; ** Chapter - 08: Time zones; ** Chapter - 09: Be the bee – Individuality; ** Chapter - 10: The network effect; ** Chapter - 11: Knowledge dashboards; ** Chapter - 12: On the sixth day – Rest

Editorial Reviews

"It's the question of our modern times: how to recapture simplicity in our lives so we can once again connect with ourselves. And in this book our Editor-at-Large Julia Hobsbawm has given us an answer: by using the shape and pattern of nature. Her six-word mantra - Keep it Simple, Learn From Nature - shows us how we can use the power of the world around us to change our lives for the better."

Arianna Huffington

"Julia Hobsbawm is a fascinating thinker and in this book she teaches us how to live a clearer, simpler life really thoughtfully."

author of Lost Connection Johann Hari

"Overwhelmed magpie mind? Will-power in a tug-of-war with your smartphone? Struggle to say no then drown in commitments? This book is the entertaining and brilliantly researched help I didn't know I needed: until I read it."

author The Bees Laline Paull

"Totally original, beautifully written"

Matthew d’Ancona

"Julia Hobsbawm, that Queen Bee of public intellectual thought, shows us how move from the complex to the simple, improving our lives in the process. Read and reap the benefit!"

Professor Heather McGregor

"I devoured this terrific book. In a world jammed up with the hectic pace of life The Simplicity Principle shows an easy roadmap back to calm and control."

Bruce Daisley

"An excellent book. Simplicity will be one of the key themes of the 2020s. Many aspire to it, but few achieve it. This book shows the way, simply."

Sir Anthony Seldon

"Julia Hobsbawm's insightful and practical book gives us simple but highly effective tools to calmly navigate life and flourish in the age of complexity."

Louise Chester

"Totally original, beautifully written"

Matthew d’Ancona