Six Simple Rules How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated
Six Simple Rules How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated by Yves Morieux, published by Harvard Business Review Press on April 1, 2014, is an illustrated guide that addresses the challenges organizations face in managing complexity. The book highlights how traditional methods often lead to increased complications rather than solutions, as evidenced by the significant rise in business complexity over the past sixty years. Morieux and co-author Peter Tollman argue for a shift in approach, advocating for the use of employees’ intelligence to navigate organizational challenges effectively.
In this edition, readers will discover six straightforward rules designed to help leaders manage complexity without complicating their structures further. Drawing on insights from social sciences and extensive research across various industries, the authors provide practical strategies to enhance productivity and innovation while reengaging the workforce. The book includes real-world examples from over five hundred companies, illustrating how these rules can lead to improved organizational performance and competitive advantage. With 240 pages, this resource serves as a valuable tool for those looking to foster autonomy and cooperation within their teams.
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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.
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