Simple, the asset

It's amazing how much team struggle has to do with making things more complicated than they need to be. The worst is when convoluted becomes such a norm that no one, except maybe newbies, even questions it. 

I once suggested an approach to change in a company culture of complication and was rejected out of hand by the chief decision despot whose entire argument was: It's too simple. No one will trust it. That was that. Status quo protected.

Complication is a weapon of control. It's a common irrational bias to assume that complicated ideas represent higher levels of competency and efficacy than the more simple. The difference between jargon and natural language is the difference between complicated and simple.

How we can make anything simpler is a golden question in team context of struggle.