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Simplify: Do 50 Percent More with 50 Percent Less

by Jim Vandehei

A practical case for making room to focus

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A practical case for making room to focus

Simplify treats overload as a problem of too much competing for attention: meetings, inboxes, calendars and everyday habits all feature in its account of “toxic complexity.” Its proposed method is to identify what matters most, remove distractions and direct more time toward work and activities that support better performance and well-being. The book is organized as a step-by-step playbook, drawing on the authors’ experience founding Axios and Politico and advising large companies. AI provides part of the backdrop, but the central subject is how to make deliberate choices about where to spend time amid a crowded working and personal life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People seeking a structured approach to prioritizing work and personal commitments
  • Professionals interested in simplifying meetings, inboxes and calendars
  • Readers exploring how to focus amid workplace changes associated with AI

Themes

PrioritizationReducing complexity and distractionWork and personal well-beingAI and changing work

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Book overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - With AI upending work and life, the founders of Axios and bestselling authors of Smart Brevity offer a one-stop survival guide to dramatically improving your life, work, and happiness.

  • Toxic complexity clogs our meetings, inboxes, calendars--even in our daily habits. We can do so much more, but first we need to do less.
  • Simplify shows you how. It's a step-by-step playbook for spending most of your time doing things that make you feel and perform better.

This urgent manual lets you take control of what is essential in a world where AI might simplify you out of a job. Maximize success by simplifying every aspect of your life. Ruthlessly distill what really matters to you, then clear the space to focus on what you do best.

  • Simplify will help anyone thrive, from interns to CEOs.

The authors draw on lessons from founding two hot startups--Axios and Politico--and their years of experience advising Fortune 500 companies. Simplify is packed with advice from some of the world's most successful people--your handbook for eliminating dreary distractions... so you can focus on what matters.
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