Book excerpt: Simplify Your Strategy and Magnify Your Results. Can your business strategy fit on an index card? Can you run your sales job from an index card? Can it really be that simple? Yes, yes, and yes ... eventually. Achieving simplicity isn't easy, but the rewards are extraordinary. The good news is the hard work has already been done. The blueprint for simplifying your strategy has been created. The Index Card Business Plan lays out a proven system (the Pillar System) to develop a simple strategy - a strategy to cut through the clutter and move you toward clarity, simplicity and most importantly ... results.