Six Simple Rules

How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated

Yves Morieux, Peter Tollman

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English

Harvard Business Press
01 April 2014

Economics & Business; Business strategy; Management & management techniques; Organisational theory & behaviour

Cut the complexity--and let people work. From two leading thinkers at the Boston Consulting Group, this book offers six smart and simple rules for making any organization less complicated. The findings from two BCG indexes that rate business complexity and layers of management and hierarchy inside firms send a clear message: complicatedness is killing the modern company by making it harder than ever for people to do their jobs.

By: Yves Morieux, Peter Tollman
Imprint: Harvard Business Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 439g
ISBN: 9781422190555
ISBN 10: 1422190552
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 April 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Yves Morieux is a senior partner and managing director in the Washington, DC, office of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). He is a BCG Fellow and director of the BCG Institute for Organization. Peter Tollman is a senior partner and managing director in BCG's Boston office. He leads BCG's People and Organization practice in North America.

Reviews for Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated

an exceedingly interesting book on a very hot topic! -- Taking Care of Biz Blog (takingcareofbiz.org) ADVANCE PRAISE for Six Simple Rules: Lamberto Andreotti, CEO, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company-- Applying the rules of this book will help those looking to increase cooperation while also removing complicatedness in their organizations. Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited-- We do not want best practices; they are not good enough for us. We want the next practices, and that is what the six simple rules are about. Erhard Friedberg, Professor DDr, h.c. emeritus, Sciences Po, Paris; Professor and Senior Advisor, School of Government and Public Policy (SGPP-Indonesia)-- This book will prove seminal. It shows the essential contribution that good empirical social sciences can bring to management, how social sciences can be used to seriously analyze and change what people do at work, and the amazing results you can then produce. Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, CEO, LEGO Group-- What the authors call 'complicatedness' is the plague of modern corporations. To simplify is easy, but the cure may be even worse than the disease. What matters is to simplify without ignoring the new complexity of business. You can do it, thanks to the simple rules.