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Once upon a time in a land not far from wereyou are, there lived a successful entrepreneur.His fame was known and acknowledgedthroughout the land.

He was successful in starting,buying andselling business after business. His motto was "the simpler the better ". As his enterprise grew,so did his need to hire people to run, maintainand grow his organization.

This entrepreneur was a curious person, heloved to travel to distant lands to see new ideas,products and organizations. On one such triphe came across a wonderful widget business. It was simple and profitable, his favourite word aftersimple.

Clapping his hands in delight at the simplicity of it all, he bought the business. His many managers saidhe should bring it under their big umbrella, to learn their ways. He wasn't sure, he thought it should beleft alone. After many conversations they prevailed and this wonderful, simple and profitable standalone was brought under his managers watchful eyes.

Secretly they feared its simplicity. It had to be taught their ways. It had to learn to send memo's everyday, to fill out the correct forms, to have meetings about the forms and memo's. This was themanagers way to show the entrepreneur that he was right in hiring them and they had the correct formsto show they were right.

Now this simple and profitable business had people who knew what they were doing and were kind andsimple people. When the outsiders came in with all their forms and meetings, they became sad. Sad,because they couldn't work on the business in their way any more. They were too busy filling out formsand going to meetings.

As time went on the kind people got sadder. The sadder they became, the more they yearned for theirsimple business. The more they yearned the sadder they became. Until one by one they left the oncesimple business. The entrepreneur kept asking his managers how the simple and profitable businesswas doing and they said " wonderful, they are learning our ways "

After twelve months had gone by, the entrepreneur was sitting down with his favourite accountant. Heliked him because he told him the truth. He was looking forward to seeing the profits from this simplebusiness. He couldn't understand why his accountant kept looking away and tried to evade hisquestions about the simple business. At last he said " tell me the truth ".

The simple business was no longer profitable. It was losing money. It had lost all the kind and goodpeople who had made it wonderful. The entrepreneur cried. He went home and thought about whathappened. He decided he was going to find all the kind and good people and give them back theirbusiness and freedom from his managers.

It took him time and energy but he did what he set out to do. After another twelve months he asked his

accountant how the simple and profitable business was doing. He was amazed and happy to hear, itwas profitable again.

He scolded his managers for making the simple business complicated. From that day forward allmanagers had to swear an oath to one rule, or be thrown on the street " Don't complicate ... Justsimplify "

The End.

Colin MylesAuthor & Listener

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