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The simplicity survival handbook bill jensen the personal mba. He has spent the past two decades studying how work gets done. Were not structuring goals, communication, information, and knowledge so that a diverse workforce can use them to make decisions, writes mr. In a world of morebetterfaster, the challenges and stresses have never been greater. John maeda uses the concept of simplicity to get at the nature of human thought and perception while drawing out tangible applications for business, technology, and life in general. If brevity is the soul of wit, simplicity is the soul of design. His mission is to make it easier to get stuff done.
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