Kathleen Eisenhardt: Effective People Think Simply

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

March 25, 2016

Duration

7m

Channel

Stanford Graduate School of Business

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Stanford Graduate School of Business PhD alum Kathleen Eisenhardt, a professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering, studied how product development teams burdened by a complicated set of rules frequently derail while teams with no rules at all never even get started.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kathleen Eisenhardt: Effective People Think Simply explores Simple rules beat complexity by focusing action, speed, and stopping. The episode argues that many organizations and individuals suffer from too much complexity, and that highly effective performance often comes from working with a small number of simple rules.

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