Gordon Ramsay’s first move in a failing restaurant is always the same: cut the menu. From 30+ dishes down to about 10.
The struggling restaurant believes variety attracts customers. It doesn’t. Variety signals poor quality and creates operational chaos.
When problems arise, our instinct is to add — more resources, more personnel, more time, more money. This makes things worse.
The correct move is subtraction. Remove the unnecessary. Eliminate complexity. Focus on what actually works.
A simpler version of almost any system outperforms its cluttered counterpart.
— Concept from Rework