Simply on a roll
You know that moment? You see something and straightaway it reminds you of something else. There I was in a little coffee shop when I spotted a clever and so simple means of showing what the day's food offerings were. The menu was presented on a large roll of brown wrapping paper attached to one of the walls making it easily visible and yet well out of the way. All that's needed each time the menu changes is for someone to tear off the previous choices; pull down a clean portion and add the new. Clever and so simple. And that reminded me of a proponent of Simplicity - Dr Edward de Bono - who in 1998 provided us a book of the same name. He gave us many other ways to think of course, including his ground-breaking Six Thinking Hats. In a post some years back on decision-making I mentioned his PMI technique which you might like to come back to here . Why did it remind me of Dr de Bono? I had the great good fortune to be present at one of hi...