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Dealing with Complexity
at Work
• The complexity and change of our world and work is increasing.
• We are constantly having to organize information available to us, and determine how to best use that information to make choices.
Dealing with Complexity at WorkIntroduction
• This trend in the world was already predicted by army instructors at West Point in the late 80's, where they taught their future leaders that the environment would be VUCCA:– Volatile, – Uncertain, – Chaotic, – Complex and – Ambiguous.
Dealing with Complexity at WorkImportant
Diversity We need to learn to respond to an
ever-increasing variety of often-conflicting demands from multiple sources: investors,
clients, suppliers, the government, etc.
Dealing with Complexity at WorkThe four main forces of complexity
InterdependenceGlobalization’s deep web of connections has resulted in a small business world with fast worldwide consequences (Dominos Effect).
Ambiguity An overload of information makes it hard for us to have clear insights and to decide when
facing our professional challenges.
Dealing with Complexity at WorkThe four main forces of complexity
FluxIt is difficult to deal with our business
environment since its features and circumstances that are taken for granted
today may become irrelevant tomorrow, often with no advance warning.
• And when dealing with this complexity we need to develop a strategy that can be implemented into our:– Organization, – Team and – Leadership.
Dealing with Complexity at WorkDeveloping a strategy
01. Setting minimal management structuresIt is important to set minimal management structures in
our department to allow fast decisions and changes when facing new and unexpected business obstacles
and challenges.
Dealing with Complexity at WorkMain strategies
02. Design a learning organization that can improvise
Creativity and adaptability are required to face our new business world and our company needs to have such
capacity to learn and improvise.
03. Build expertise and real-time communication
A company needs to build a team of business experts to improve its performance. And a real-time
communication system is essential to allow them to share information and new business approaches.
Dealing with Complexity at WorkMain strategies
04. Distribute leadershipLeadership in this context, regardless of role, needs to
act as an enabler of spontaneous action.
A company needs to allow its employees to take part as a leader when the situation requires and no one is
around to make a decision.
• For businesses to succeed in times of chaos and complexity, a company needs to reinvent itself completely.
• It’s about building the capacity, in yourself, your people, and the organization to adapt continuously and learn speedily, in order to maximize the chances of seizing business opportunities.
Dealing with Complexity at WorkConclusion
• Gerard Seijts, Mary Crossan, and Niels Billou:– Coping with complexity– http://iveybusinessjournal.com/topics/leadership/coping-with-
complexity#.U54ox_ldVK2
• Michael Cardus – Managing organizational complexity & change– http://create-learning.com/article/manager-training/managing-organizational-
complexity-change
• Kathia C. Laszlo– Dealing with complexity– http://www.saybrook.edu/rethinkingcomplexity/posts/11-03-11/dealing-
complexity
• Linda Fisher Thornton– Dealing with complexity in leadership– http://leadingincontext.com/2013/02/27/dealing-with-complexity-in-leadership/
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