PowerPoint slides and each one can be an hour of the presentation. I’m not saying that the person making the presentation shouldn’t understand what’s in there, but he or she has got to be able in five minutes to give you the essence of what it is… Get rid of matrix report the idea that you can report to a couple of different people equally is simply – too complex. Bite the bullet and say one boss. Make sure every single person knows who they report to and exactly how they’re getting compensated. Make no ambiguity along the way. These are just a few things, but the point is it’s like a shrub that is overgrown, virtually every organization needs to become not for its own sake, but because they’re going to have to move very quickly; you can’t innovate when you have layers of complexity. I remember that a CEO of Unisys told me he was trying to simplify and he had – all kinds of inventive people, but he basically set a rule. He said no innovation will be funded unless it applies to over 12 countries. The company was in 100 different countries and in order to simplify, they could not evaluate all of the ideas. They basically said, you come up with an idea that can spread to a certain number of countries, or don’t bother. Public policy awareness. If there’s one thing that has really changed, it is the importance of government. Ten years ago, in fact I wrote a book which I don’t want to say I’m ashamed of it, but I really got it wrong, in 2002 when I said that many of the major problems of the world are going to have to be solved by companies because
PowerPoint slides and each one can be an hour of the presentation. I’m not saying that the person making the presentation shouldn’t understand what’s in there, but he or she has got to be able in five minutes to give you the essence of what it is… Get rid of matrix report – the idea that you can report to a couple of different people equally is simply too complex. Bite the bullet and say one boss. Make sure every single person knows who they report to and exactly how they’re getting compensated. Make no ambiguity along the way. These are just a few things, but the point is it’s like a shrub that is overgrown, virtually every organization needs to become not for its own sake, but because they’re going to have to move very quickly; you can’t innovate when you have layers of complexity. I remember that a CEO of Unisys told me – he was trying to simplify and he had all kinds of inventive people, but he basically set a rule. He said no innovation will be funded unless it applies to over 12 countries. The company was in 100 different countries and in order to simplify, they could not evaluate all of the ideas. They basically said, you come up with an idea that can spread to a certain number of countries, or don’t bother. Public policy awareness. If there’s one thing that has really changed, it is the importance of government. Ten years ago, in fact I wrote a book which I don’t want to say I’m ashamed of it, but I really got it wrong, in 2002 when I said that many of the major problems of the world are going to have to be solved by companies because