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The amount of complexity in most organizations today is staggering - and it's only getting worse. There are so many selections to be made, people to require, processes to control, and facts to analyze, you can't really get things done. And in today's hypercompetitive world, that can be fatal. Yet difficulty doesn't happen alone. Managers unwittingly create it, often through well-intended decisions. In Simply Effective, Ron Ashkenas offers a playbook for regaining control, focused on the four major causes of difficulty:
- Continual changes in organizational buildings
- Proliferation of products and services
- Development of business techniques
- Time-wasting managerial behaviors