Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done by Ashkenas, Ron

Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781422181140)

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Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done by Ashkenas, Ron

Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done

$35.00
Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done by Ashkenas, Ron

Simply Effective: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Ron Ashkenas
ISBN-10: 1422181146
ISBN-13: 9781422181140
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Language: English
Published: 12/08/2009
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 107
By Ron Ashkenas
By Ron Ashkenas
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Ron Ashkenas is a Managing Partner of Robert H. Schaffer & Associates, where he consults to CEOs and senior executives on leadership, organizational transformation, and postmerger integration. He has served on the faculty of executive education programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kellogg School of Management, University of Michigan Ross School of Business, and Weatherhead School of Management. He is the coauthor of The Boundaryless Organization, The GE Work-Out, and Rapid Results.

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