At the reflection time of year between Christmas and New Year’s, I finished an easy jigsaw puzzle. I tend to get all consumed with 1000-piece puzzles, but I knew I didn’t have the time or mental energy for one. So I chose something simpler — and it was the right call.

There’s a lesson in that for business: not everything needs to be complex. Simplicity is a strategy. Redundancy and complexity in your systems, your product line, your team structure — they all have a cost. Sometimes the best New Year’s decision isn’t adding something new. It’s identifying what to remove.