KISS is the only way to go. But it’s also hard to do well. I think a lot of people add layers of complication as a quick fix but less is more. And it takes a little more thought and work to implement it.

The payoff is a lot bigger though!

My business mantra is based on the KISS system – Keep It Simple, Stupid!

- Martin Reed

That’s a post title if I ever heard one!

What I’m really trying to get across here is, instead of building an elephant, build a nice sized roasted pig instead … everybody at the party gets plenty to eat, and it’s a lot easier than trying to get an elephant into the back yard and over the firepit.

The key to all this is to keep it simple, do your best and to hell with the rest, got to remember that you are not the only one to take the entire burden. Write out your priorities, don’t lose focus, do things one at a time and what have you got….positive results.

You have too much to do?? No problems, that can be handled too. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.

Good reminders for me from this post mate.

Take care and Cheers.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

When I was running a water bottling plant I had to deal with a lot of little fires. I like using the analogy of a bottling line which is a linear process … it’s one machine followed by another, then another, etc.

It all works together, or it doesn’t work at all.

Everything affects everything else. You have to look at the big picture and make sure that the little fix you apply on one thing doesn’t screw up everything else (which happens a lot with complicated systems).

I run a shipping dock in a large grocery warehouse, and man, I have to put out “fires” constantly. And like you said, it’s easy to end up with more and more policies and procedures to have to follow. The higher ups there are apparently big believers in adding more and more little rules to try and prevent bad things from happening more than once. The fact is, it usually only gets more people in trouble when the situation rises again……..because they usually do sooner or later.

That last paragraph really nails it. If your in a leadership position, you can’t afford to get too deep in the fire yourself. Someone has to keep an eye on the big picture, and utilize the people you have to put out fires as you direct them…..at least that’s been my experience.