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Simplicity facilitates clarity. “Thinking in Threes” is a powerful way to simplify organizational thinking and combat complexity so your team can be crystal clear. As a by-product, it also forces prioritization and focus, and the resulting clarity trickles down the organization.
For example, we routinely ask clients to reduce their strategies from perhaps six to three, or to consolidate their values from twelve to three, or to select the three most important business metrics from their laundry list of twenty. No doubt, it’s a struggle, but the resulting clarity pays big dividends on many fronts and for years to come.
Truth be told, ending up with precisely three items is less important than the clarity this process creates. For instance, when we encouraged a client to identify just three core values instead of its list of twelve (that no one could remember, let alone implement), they settled on four values.
It wasn’t necessary to eliminate one more to get down to three values. The benefit was realized—clear articulation of their core values that virtually everyone in the organization now remembers and lives by.
Thinking in Threes forces you to create simple, memorable, focused frameworks for your vision, your values, and your performance expectations.
