Six Simple Rules, Yves Morieux
Six Simple Rules, Yves Morieux
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Six Simple Rules
How to Manage Complexity Without Getting Complicated

Author: Yves Morieux, Peter Tollman

Narrator: Daniel Henning

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/14/2017


Synopsis

New tools for managing complexity Does your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone. According to The Boston Consulting Group's fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems-has increased by a whopping factor of thirty-five. In their attempt to respond to the increasingly complex performance requirements they face, company leaders have created an organizational labyrinth that makes it more and more difficult to improve productivity and to pursue innovation. It also disengages and demotivates the workforce. Clearly it's time for leaders to stop trying to manage complexity with their traditional tools and instead better leverage employees' intelligence. This book shows you how and explains the implications for designing and leading organizations. The way to manage complexity, the authors argue, is neither with the hard solutions of another era nor with the soft solutions-such as team building and feel-good "people initiatives"-that often follow in their wake. Based on social sciences (notably economics, game theory, and organizational sociology) and The Boston Consulting Group's work with more than five hundred companies in more than forty countries and in various industries, authors Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman recommend six simple rules to manage complexity without getting complicated. Showing why the rules work and how to put them into practice, Morieux and Tollman give managers a much-needed tool to reinvigorate people in the face of seemingly endless complexity. Included are detailed examples from companies that have achieved a multiplicative effect on performance by using them. It's time to manage complexity better. Employ these six simple rules to foster autonomy and cooperation and to effectively handle business complexity. As a result, you will improve productivity, innovate more, reengage your workforce, and seize opportunities to create competitive advantage.

Reviews

Finally. I thought, I'll never finish this one. Language is needlessly complicated adding to the 'complicatedness' of the book (you'll need to endure the book to understand the word). The stories, that support the arguments, are ranging from nice to artificially stitched to support whatever idea the a......more

Goodreads review by Kim

One the most insightful books on management theory I've ever read. Through a lens of systems thinking and game theory, the author breaks management down in to one simple truth: context matters.......more

Goodreads review by Jurgen

Reinvention of Agile and Lean without any references to them, but with good insights and nice examples.......more

I read this book in a week. I guess the last document I read on BCG was the "matrix" they created several years ago. This time -given the huge expertise they have worldwide - BCG makes everything more simple (not easier) splitting -and fixing-all the managerial aspects of the company into 2 pillars:......more

Goodreads review by Horia

The basic ideas are good and very useful. It will certainly make me rethink some of the things I was doing and it. But I found it hard to read it as I felt the language was mostly artificial. For example "They can do so by framing rich objectives and then embedding feedback loops that retain the bene......more