Simply Effective : How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done
by
Ron Ashkenas
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1422181146
ISBN-13
9781422181140
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Imprint
Harvard Business Review Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 8th, 2009
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
366 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 15.00 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Management & management techniques
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Trying to get things done in organizations can feel like trying to swim in cement. But complexity doesn't happen all on its own managers unwittingly create complexity all the time. So while complexity in the outside environment isn't going to go away, the good news is that managers can reduce it. This book shows managers how to do so.
The level of complexity in most organizations today is staggering-and it''s only getting worse. There are so many choices to be made, people to involve, processes to manage, and facts to analyze, it''s impossible to get things done. And in today''s hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal.
Yet complexity doesn''t happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions. In Simply Effective, Ron Ashkenas provides a playbook for regaining control, focused on the four major causes of complexity:
-Constant changes in organizational structures
-Proliferation of products and services
-Evolution of business processes
-Time-wasting managerial behaviors
The author provides a diagnostic for identifying how these causes of complexity are affecting your organization-and presents practical tactics for combating each one.
Ashkenas also explains how to craft a strategy that will make simplification an ongoing driver of your company''s success-no matter where you work in your organization. Abundant examples from companies like ConAgra Foods, GE, Cisco, Zurich Financial Services, and Johnson & Johnson illuminate his points.
A crucial resource in today''s overly complex age, Simply Effective should be required reading for everyone on your management team.
Yet complexity doesn''t happen on its own. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions. In Simply Effective, Ron Ashkenas provides a playbook for regaining control, focused on the four major causes of complexity:
-Constant changes in organizational structures
-Proliferation of products and services
-Evolution of business processes
-Time-wasting managerial behaviors
The author provides a diagnostic for identifying how these causes of complexity are affecting your organization-and presents practical tactics for combating each one.
Ashkenas also explains how to craft a strategy that will make simplification an ongoing driver of your company''s success-no matter where you work in your organization. Abundant examples from companies like ConAgra Foods, GE, Cisco, Zurich Financial Services, and Johnson & Johnson illuminate his points.
A crucial resource in today''s overly complex age, Simply Effective should be required reading for everyone on your management team.
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