ABSTRACT
William of Ockham lived his adult years at the beginning of the 14th century. He was a Franciscan friar and theologian who postulated that, among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. We tend to believe that complicating things—adding complexity—makes the solutions and decision more elegant. But that's untrue, it simply makes them more difficult to implement. The young adults may be the most overprotected, coddled, and insulated in history, with "trigger warnings," "safe zones," and parents complaining about too much homework. We all change our plans, short term and long term, constantly. We adjust a vacation given weather or transportation problems. We modify our approach to customers and clients given competitive actions. The competition advances, the bleeding continues, the opportunity is lost. There are few devices as effective in overcoming bias about competencies and stereotypes about inclusion as the methodical application of innovation.
