Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated

Contents

INTRODUCTION

Why Managers Need the Six Simple Rules

1. SIMPLE RULE ONE

Understand What Your People Do

2. SIMPLE RULE TWO

Reinforce Integrators

3. SIMPLE RULE THREE

Increase the Total Quantity of Power

4. SIMPLE RULE FOUR

Increase Reciprocity

5. SIMPLE RULE FIVE

Extend the Shadow of the Future

6. SIMPLE RULE SIX

Reward Those Who Cooperate

CONCLUSION

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Authors