Simple Or Complicated? This Test Reveals The Truth

In a McKinsey survey, 62% of executives, managers and employees reported that org structures and processes make it difficult to get work done. While there are many causes for complexity — rapid growth or fear-based leadership, for example — it’s not a fatal diagnosis. Anyone at any level can start simplifying things within their own sphere of control.

What exactly constitutes a simplified state? After interviewing hundreds of experts and academics for my book, Why Simple Wins, my team and I invented an awkward but effective acronym to remember what simplicity is: M.U.R.A.