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Title: Simplexity 

Competency: self-development

Who benefits: anyone interested in expanding her or his horizons

Consultant Usage: recommending this book to others may enhance your credibility

What’s it about?  Look, simply put, this book is not for everyone.  It is unlikely that anyone who reads this book will learn anything that is helpful to her or him in their day-to-day job.

Having said that, I found this book to be as fascinating as a book can be.  I couldn’t put it down.  Why do some things look oh so simple – and turn out to be incredibly complex.  And why do some extraordinary complex things have incredibly simple solutions?

I was not previously familiar with the author, Jeffrey Kluger.  My bad.  But when I stumbled across this quote from Publishers Weekly I had to know more: “Kluger makes the modern world comprehensible….”

Today’s post is exceeding simple.  No need to make it complex.  If you want to know more about human behavior, or are a fan of Freakonomics or Blink, or you are just a curious person, then don’t miss this book. 

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Bill Bradley

Bill Bradley (mostly) retired after 35 years in organizational consulting, training and management development. During those years he worked internally with seven organizations and trained and consulted externally with more than 90 large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools.