Name: Six Simple Rules
ISBN: 9781422190555

Peter Tollman

Yves Morieux

Two senior members of the Boston Consulting Group discuss how the complicated layers of management and hierarchy in business today make it difficult for people to do their jobs and describe a solution for managing this increasing complexity. 25,000 first printing.

How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated

Six Simple Rules

Cristian Garcia

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: (1) hard [structure, metrics]and (2) soft [feelings, traits]. However, they say this pillars are obsolete and something needs to be done to create impact and increase employees engagement.
That being said, BCG thinks the best way to tackle this issue is by following 6 steps that make complexity go away.
- Understand what others do.
- Reinforce integrators
- Increase total amount of power
- Extend the shadow of the future (I loved this one)
- Increase reciprocity
- Reward those who cooperate (blame is not for failure, it is for failure to help or ask for help).
Useful book. Completely worth it and immersive. Yves Morieux also has a TED talk in which he explains all of this.

Six Simple Rules How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated

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