Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated

Acknowledgments

Yves Morieux: I am grateful to the late Michel Crozier, whose passion inspired me when I was a student at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris and later in our joint work together. My thanks also to Michael Baker for advising me to study industrial markets from the perspective of decision analysis when I was a student at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. I am grateful, too, to Carl Stern and Rafael Cerezo for their encouragement when they were, respectively, Boston Consulting Group CEO and BCG Europe chairman, and to Hans-Paul Buerkner, current BCG chairman, for creating the fellowship program that provided BCG’s Institute for Organi-zation with the resources to understand and tackle the evolution of complexity. Thanks ...