The Laws of Subtraction:6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything

The world is more overwhelming than ever before.  Our work is more demanding than ever.  Our businesses are more complicated and difficult to manage than ever. 

Our economy is more uncertain than ever.  Our resources are scarcer than ever.  There is endless choice and feature overkill in all but the best experiences. 

The simple life is a thing of the past.  Today, success requires that you do not more, but less.  In other words, the solution is subtraction.

In our summary of The Laws of Subtraction, by Matthew E. May, you’ll learn six simple rules for winning in the age of excess everything.

May is the author of three award-winning books: The Elegant Solution, In Pursuit of Elegance, and The Shibumi Strategy. A popular speaker, creativity coach, and close advisor on innovation to companies such as ADP, Edmunds, Intuit, and Toyota, he is the founder of Edit Innovation, an ideas agency based in Los Angeles.

As this summary illustrates, when you remove just the right things in just the right way, something very good happens.