<DIV><B>Cut the complexity?and let people work</B><BR><br>From two leading thinkers at the Boston Consulting Group, this book offers six smart and simple rules for making any organization less complicated.<br><br>The findings from two BCG indexes that rate business complexity and layers of management and hierarchy inside firms send a clear message: complicatedness is killing the modern company by making it harder than ever for people to do their jobs. Yves Morieux and Peter Tollman say the only effective response to ever-increasing complexity is to stop trying to manage it. Instead, say the authors, let people work together and use their own intelligence to meet the challenges they face.<BR><br>Based on principles from organizational sociology, along with insights collected over two decades applying these principles in companies all over the world, this book presents six proven methods?<I>six smart rules</I>?for mobilizing people without giving them more processes, structures or hierarchies. Organizations that follow the rules will see a direct impact on performance and results.</DIV>