Today’s businesses are increasingly complex — and traditional pillars of management are obsolete, says Yves Morieux. 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.). His book, Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated is a great follow up if you like this video.
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In the video, I think Yves challenges a few of the tenets of the pillars of Lean; Continuous Improvement and Respect for People.
What do you think? Does he reinforce them or oppose them?