Forrest Gump

OK, let me explain: This isn't my choice of leadership book. It's the choice of Allan Leighton, the UK businessman who became European CEO of Wal-Mart and Chairman of the Royal Mail, among other things. He says we need to simplify, that most leadership over-complicates. And reading the Haiku-like short quotes from Forrest Gump in Winston Groom's book Gumpisms: The Wit And Wisdom Of Forrest Gump, helps us get in the zone of thinking simply.