Why Your Improvement Efforts are Just Making Everything Worse

The Power of Subtraction

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“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away,” said Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the pioneering aviator and author of Le Petit Prince. And yet, our first instinct is always to add, rather than subtract. We add more features to our products, more layers to our organizations…