Why do people feel so miserable and disengaged at work? Because today’s businesses are increasingly and dizzyingly complex — and traditional pillars of management are obsolete, says Yves Morieux. So, he says, it falls to individual employees to navigate the rabbit’s warren of interdependencies. In this energetic talk, Morieux offers six rules for “smart simplicity.” (Rule one: Understand what your colleagues actually do.)
Yves proposes 6 simplification rules for business
- Understand what others do – beyond a superficial title, understand what their role involves.
- Reinforce integrators – give managers the power to make cooperation happen without forcing KPIs and complicated structures on people.
- Increase total quantity of power – empower everyone to use their judgement and intelligence to take good risks
- Extend the shadow of the future – make sure feedback loops expose employees to the consequences of their actions
- Increase reciprocity – remove buffers that force people to be self-sufficient
- Reward those who cooperate – “blame is not for failure, it is for failing to cooperate or ask for help”