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#116 Jeff Immelt: Leadership In A Crisis
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
How Do You Fight Complexity?
i would say harnessing complexity is actually a strength. Being complex is it takes 20 signatures to sign a lease, 12 layers of management between the factory floor and somebody that's running a business. And so i think you have to constantly be on the lookout for how fast is it to make decisions? How much overhead cost do you have? You have a bunch of people that are dotting a double dotted line. I went an to a factory in peterborough in canada one time, where we made large motors, traction motors, and they were doing terribly. It was a way to send a signal that that kind of complexity can't exist in the company. We're no simpl by
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