Simplicity starts with a Higher Purpose. When people are very clear on their Higher Purpose, the context or the bigger picture, they are more able to work out what is needed and how best to achieve it. This is particularly important in Safety or any organisations where there is remote working and people who work autonomously, who may not be closely supervised. It is extremely important under these conditions that people have the simplicity of leadership, great clarity on their Higher Purpose, the context, because they don’t always have someone to confer with and remind them of their Higher Purpose.  They must make decisions themselves to do the right thing on the spot in isolation.

For any organisation to create simplicity through great leadership, is an opportunity to release the next level of performance. We have a choice where to intervene next, do we turn up the volume on the management side, i.e. more tools, systems, processes or do we turn it up on the leadership side?  Here’s the important point, the more we lead, the greater the clarity of our Higher Purpose, our cause or belief, the less we have to manage.

This is where WhyNot tends to focus, releasing extraordinary potential and performance through your people within the organisation. Most organisations that have been around for a bit have got management cracked, if they didn’t, they simply wouldn’t exist anymore.  The biggest potential we see is in the leadership and context space, getting reconnected at a very human level. Supporting and enabling people to see what it is they do as a full expression of that.