In Living with Complexity , Professor Donald Arthur Norman wrote: “When things are too simple, they are also viewed as dull and uneventful. Psychologists have demonstrated that people prefer a middle level of complexity: too simple and we are bored, too compl...

Simple thinking can lead to safer plans, better communication, and easier execution. The power of simplicity is apparent throughout history, where strategists and artists alike strived for simplicity. Let's look at a few examples!

Famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who is considered one of the pioneers of modernist architecture, always kept repeating this aphorism to whoever would hear him: less is more.

His approach was to arrange the necessary components of a building to create an impression of extreme simp...

When trying to solve a crime, Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional detective believes that “the simplest explanation is often the most plausible.”

The French writer and poet, Antoine de Saint Exupéry, also wrote: “It seems that perfection is reached not when there is noth...