Six simple rules: how to manage complexity without getting complicated

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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#x97;that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems#x97;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.;Introduction: Why managers need the six simple rules -- Simple Rule One: Understand what your people do -- Simple Rule Two: Reinforce integrators -- Simple Rule Three: Increase the total quantity of power -- Simple Rule Four: Increase reciprocity -- Simple Rule Five: Extend the shadow of the future -- Simple Rule Six: Reward those who cooperate.