Kill The Company


End The Status Quo, Start An Innovation Revolution
In the ever-changing world of business, we've arrived at a point where process has trumped culture, where the race toward efficiency has made us complacent and unable to reach our potential. Stuck in the land of status quo, we've forgotten how to think. And the very structures put in place to help businesses grow are now holding them back. It's time to Kill the Company.

What this book suggests is simple: to SIMPLIFY by getting rid of things first rather than continually building on what doesn’t work; a form of spring cleaning for your organization. Innovation specialist Lisa Bodell urges companies to question assumptions and to challenge rules that have outlived their time. Killing these status quo attitudes makes space for change and more value-added work, like thinking.

 
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"At Zappos, one of our core values is to ‘Embrace and Drive Change.’ Kill the Company shatters traditional notions of culture change and innovation. This book gives a fresh and interesting approach to businesses looking to make changes to their own cultures."

Tony Hsieh
NY Times best-selling author of Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos.com, Inc.

"The boldness of Lisa's assertion
that we must Kill the Company is only matched by the preciseness of the arguments, tools and techniques that she provides to show us how to do it."


Prof Tony O'Driscoll
Executive Director, Center for Technology, Media and Entertainment (CTEM), Fuqua School of Business.

"Lisa Bodell has finally captured her years of successful innovation work with clients in this book ... Reading this book will launch you on a path to innovation that will you enable to create the future that you want."

Andy Hines
Lecturer/Executive in Residence, University of Houston, Futures Studies

“Lisa Bodell is dead-on:
‘Everyone is a Change Agent.’
This book provides practical tools for anyone to change their company’s culture and raise their game in innovation.“


Jeff Honious
VP, Innovation, Reed Elsevier

 

Why Simple Wins


Escape The Complexity Trap And Get To The Work That Matters
Imagine what you could do with the time you spend writing emails every day. Complexity is killing companies' ability to innovate and adapt, and simplicity is fast becoming the competitive advantage of our time.

Why Simple Wins helps leaders and their teams move beyond the feelings of frustration and futility that come with so much unproductive work in today's corporate world to create a corporate culture where valuable, essential, meaningful work is the norm. By learning how to eliminate redundancies, communicate with clarity, and make simplification a habit, individuals and companies can begin to recognize which activities are time-sucks and which create lasting value.



Killing Complexity Toolkit


13 Tools, Techniques, And Tips To Help You Do More Valuable Work Every Day
As a tactical ancillary to the book Why Simple Wins, this toolkit contains 13 tools
to enable leaders and teams to move beyond the cycle of busywork and toward a culture where valuable, essential work is the norm. By learning how to eliminate redundancies, communicate with clarity, and make simplification a habit, we can recognize which activities are time-sucks and which create lasting value.

Eliminating low-value work translates into individuals who feel less overwhelmed, more empowered, and able to spend each day doing things that matter.

 


 
 

"Why Simple Wins makes a compelling case against the scourge of complexity. Lisa Bodell shows that simplification can be the competitive advantage of our time, helping us to be more innovative, more adaptable, and better positioned to thrive and truly have an impact."

Arianna Huffington
Author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution, Co-founder of The Huffington Post

"There are two ways to achieve simplicity: ignorance and elegance. Lisa Bodell empowers us to move toward the elegant, delivering practical tools for reducing time wasted on low-value tasks so we can free up energy for innovative thinking."

Adam Grant
Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give And Take

"Complexity is at the center of the world's most significant challenges. Lisa Bodell shines a bright light on the single most significant leadership priority of this era. We need to simplify everything!"

Bill McDermott
Chief Executive Officer, SAP

"Once again, Bodell hits the bullseye. She presents a compelling case that complexity is killing organizations--backed up with stone-cold data--and then delivers practical and effective tools to enable leaders to make simplification a habit."

Camille Mirshokrai
Managing Director Leadership Development and Succession Planning, Accenture

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FutureThink CEO, best-selling author and top keynote speaker Lisa Bodell

About The Author

FutureThink CEO Lisa Bodell ranks among the Top 50 Speakers Worldwide and is the best-selling author of Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins. She’s a global leader on simplification, productivity and innovation, whose keynotes leave audiences inspired to change and arms them with radically simple tools to get to the work that matters.

Bodell brings a compelling perspective to the sought-after topics of simplification and innovation to over 100,000 people each year. A thought leader and serial entrepreneur, her transformational message has inspired executives at top-ranked organizations such as Google, Cisco, Citigroup, and the U.S. Navy War College.

Based on her best-selling books, Kill the Company and Why Simple Wins, Lisa provides a provocative yet practical approach that enables organizations and individuals to eradicate the unnecessary complexity and time-sucks that hold them back from more meaningful work, and allow simplicity to become their new operating system.

Bodell has contributed her expertise to a wide variety of media. She is a monthly contributor to Forbes and has frequently appeared in other media including: Fast Company, WIRED, The New York Times, Inc., Bloomberg Businessweek, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, FOX News, and CNN. She has also been featured in many major books such as Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question, Adam Grant’s Originals, and After Shock, the upcoming 50-year celebration based on futurist Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock.

Bodell has taught innovation at both American University and Fordham University, and has a TED talk on the topic. She has served on the board of advisors of several organizations, including the Global Agenda Council for the World Economic Forum, the United States National Security Agency, the Association of Professional Futurists, and the Novartis board of Diversity & Inclusion.

 

 

 

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Lisa Bodell contributes her expertise to a wide variety of media and has earned many awards for her work. Follow the links below to learn more.

 

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