There are different flavors of simple. Only one of them is the right kind of simple …
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Welcome back to “Irresistible Communication”.
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:Two minutes, twice a week.
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:No nonsense advice on
leadership communication.
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:Great communication tends to be simple.
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:Not trivial or simplistic,
but profoundly simple.
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:So here's the difference.
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:Trivial messages take us nowhere.
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:Simplistic ones take
us to the wrong places.
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:Or sometimes they stop
short of the destination.
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:But profoundly simple ones light the
path to unexpected places, places
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:that are worth exploring and worth
having a deeper conversation on.
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:Both, trivial and simplistic, try
to remove or replace the complexity.
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:They pretend that things would be
simpler than they actually are.
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:And in the best case, that's mostly
harmless, but in the worst case, it
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:could even be dangerous because it
might lead us to the wrong conclusions.
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:These two cut the conversation short
and offer conclusions without the
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:hassle of having to think it through.
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:That's their appeal.
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:But profoundly simple
means something different.
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:It does not replace the complexity.
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:It makes it accessible.
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:Profoundly simple doesn't aim to
end the discussion, but to spark
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:the curiosity that allows the
conversation to start and go deeper.
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:So, can you tell your story
in a profoundly simple way?
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:Keep lighting the path and
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