Speaker, consultant, entrepreneur, and author of the management complexity removing book Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action, John Spence, discusses how simplicity is the new gold standard for business success. He shares the powerful insight that most business problems, while crucial, are not complex. John shares six steps to turning those critical problems into quick and elegant solutions. Instead of making problems complex, transform them into simple to apply solutions.
John Spence is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on Blog Talk Radio.
The show airs live on Thursday, October 1, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
Speaker, consultant, entrepreneur, and author of the management complexity removing book Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action, John Spence, discusses how simplicity is the new gold standard for business success. You will learn:
* Why simplicity is essential in business management today
* How complexity became a detrimental part of modern business processes
* The six essential business strategies for simplicity
* How to make simplicity part of your business management system
John Spence (photo left) believes in making the very complex... awesomely simple.
"Making the very complex...awesomely simple” is no mere catch phrase, it is truly John Spence’s mission in life. Driven by an insatiable curiosity to understand the fundamental aspects of what it takes to achieve and sustain excellence in business and life, John Spence has earned a reputation as a leading authority in the areas of Strategic Thinking, High-Performance Teams, Advanced Leadership Development, and Delivering Consistently Superior Customer Service, making him one of the most highly sought after executive educators and professional speakers in America.
At the age of just 26, John was named CEO of an international Rockefeller foundation, overseeing projects in 20 countries and reporting directly to the Chairman of the Board, Winthrop P. Rockefeller III. Two years later John was nominated as one of the top CEOs under the age of 40 in Florida and Inc. Magazine’s “Zinc Online” recognized him as one of America’s up and coming young business leaders.
For the past 14 years, John has presented workshops, speeches and executive coaching to more than 300 organizations worldwide including; Microsoft, IBM, GE Capital, Abbott, Merrill Lynch, Black Rock, NCR, AT&T, The US Navy, Alltel, Lanier, Verizon, Qualcomm, State Farm, and dozens of private companies, government offices and not-for-profits. John is also the author of Excellence by Design: Leadership – The Six Key Characteristics of Outstanding Leaders and Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action and has been a guest lecturer at over 90 colleges and universities across the United States including Harvard, Rutgers, Brown, Stanford and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Affectionately referred to as the “Human Cliffs Notes” by many of his clients, John is known for taking massive amounts of research combined with his personal hands-on experience to deliver timely, focused, results-driven programs. For example, to create carefully customized workshops and presentations that reflect the newest research and most current thinking, John reads at least 100 business-related books each year and listens to an additional 30-50 on CD, giving him an incredible depth and breadth of knowledge which to draw from.
John has served as “Executive in Residence” for the University of Central Florida’s Technology Incubator; as a Special Advisor to the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University; as a lead instructor for the University of North Florida’s Executive Education division; on the Board of Directors for the University of Florida’s Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation; as an advisor to the University of Florida’s Leadership Development Institute and as a senior instructor at the Cornell University Leadership Development School.
His work as a business advisor and executive educator has taken him on assignments to Hong Kong, Japan, Germany, Austria, Mexico, Latin America, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands and Canada.
My book review of Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action by John Spence.
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Let's talk with speaker, consultant, entrepreneur, and author of the management complexity removing book Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action, John Spence, as he discusses how simplicity is the new gold standard for business success. He shares the powerful insight that most business problems, while crucial, are not complex. John shares six steps to turning those critical problems into quick and elegant solutions. Instead of making problems complex, transform them into simple to apply solutions on Blog Business Success Radio.
