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Title: Simply Effective
Subtitle: How to Cut Through Complexity in Your Organization and Get Things Done
Author: Ron Ashkenas
Narrator: Jeffrey Schmidt
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-03-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 3 votes
Genres: Business, Management
Publisher's Summary:
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:
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 listening for everyone on your management team.
Members Reviews:
Simple and Effective
Rather than a complex model to understand complexity, the author has brought the issue into the personal realm: what do I do - as a leader and a follower - that contributes to complexity in my organization, and what can I do differently to become more effective. The danger is that everyone will run out and buy this book to give to others as a way to get them to change. The opportunity is for everyone to read this book and begin with their own changes, improving both accountability and effectiveness.
Five Stars
Great writing. Down to Earth. Examples are essential and well presented and justified.
This book... yes, it gets to the points quickly and can be very valuable to you and your business
There are some real pearls of wisdom for change efforts and the stories, tips, and advice the author provides is invaluable. Break out your highlighter and get to work, this book won't let you down.
Five Stars
Excellent condition, thank you very much
Simply and Effectively Excellent
Albert Einstein said that "Everything should be made as simple as possible and no simpler."
Peter Drucker said that "Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective."
I don't know if those quotes inspired Ron Ashkenas, the author of Simply Effective, but they could have. If you're looking for ways to understand unnecessary complexity in your business and root it out, you should read this book.
The key to the value of this book is clearly stated in the Preface: The author says that the tools he refers to will probably be familiar to you. Then he says this:
"My intent is not to rehash these tools, but rather to put them in the context of how they can be used either singly or in combination to tackle different aspects of complexity--or to be woven together into a more comprehensive strategy."
What makes this a great book is the simple structure. It provides a lens you can use to spot and analyze needless or destructive complexity.
