Maeda's SIMPLICITY

Simplicity is Everywhere

Whether it's credit cards to car financing to chicken broth, it seems that the value of simplicity, if not yet proven, is at least popular ... and healthy if you believe in the power of chicken soup.

I had the opportunity to attend a maharam sales conference in beautiful Miami where Michael Maharam shared some time with me. Michael believes that simplicity is an important tool for his business as a means to tame the complex mechanisms that have led to their current success, so that they can move forward to even higher goals. Pure and simple. As true as the chicken broth box sayeth. Who needs fortune cookies anyways?

However I must admit that my mind was a bit distracted by the beautiful beach only a few footsteps away from the meeting room where the calm of the ocean belied the most deepest form of simplicity. The temperature there was much better than the way it was at the Cape last year where we are soon to return for a consortium meeting.