"Jack was marvelous at creating simplicity out of huge complexity," said Noel M. Tichy, a professor at the University of Michigan Business School.
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan presented Congress with a sweeping proposal to reform the national tax system in the interest of preserving fairness, stimulating growth, and creating simplicity in the tax code.
Allowing alternatives, even if they were obvious variants (acommodation, accomodation, acomodation), would create not simplicity but confusion – how would people know if their spellings were legitimate?
"You just can't do the statues of 30 years ago, because who are you going to show?" The burden of conveying the weight of reality now falls on lists of names, which in its own way undermines the ability to create resonant simplicity, he said.
Magnificent memorable lines are created with simplicity of diction: Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.
He aimed to keep the arrangements as open as possible, to re-create the simplicity of the standards, and became preoccupied with creating only pieces that could fit within the Great American Songbook.
Paring down was precisely the goal, Mr. Warchus said, "to create impact through simplicity".
The research findings suggest that health system design concepts should focus on the creation of health, not health care; foster simplicity; create nurturing relationships; eliminate user fear; and contain costs.
