Cracking Complexity

The Breakthrough Formula for Solving Just about Anything Fast

By: David Benjamin, David Komlos, Marshall Goldsmith

Narrated by: John Chancer

Complexity has met its match!

Today, organizations are grappling with ambiguity, volatility, and paradox surrounding the challenges they face. This is complexity. But too many leaders approach complexity the wrong way - they push their people harder and harder and tackle problems one at a time over months, sometimes even years and nearly always in a linear fashion. It’s like setting a pot of water on “low” and waiting for it to boil. To solve the seemingly intractable challenges that leaders bang their heads against for months - to get the metaphorical water to boil - you must generate a high amount of heat very quickly. In this book, the authors share their proven formula for dramatically shortening the process and solving an organization’s toughest challenges in mere days.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 David Benjamin, David Komlos, and Marshall Goldsmith (P)2019 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Old truths and new ideas

Good information to review or hear for the first time.

The attatchment was great to follow along for the matrices. Otherwise that would have been a little more difficult.

The narration was clear, concise and didn't sound monotone, as so many others do.

The information and presentation were well done and I found a few nuggets to try out.

My favorite intro to complexity theory!

A wedding is a simple system, a marriage is a complex system. I go back to this book time and time again when I have to recognize how to handle complex systems. Simple systems have finite inputs and outputs. The interaction of multiple simple systems results in complex systems. Treating complex systems as if they were just bigger simple systems results in complication.
The authors come up with a useful model for recognizing complications and avoiding many of the rookie mistakes.

This is horrible,like the rest of the plus catalog.

Everything on the catalog is crap, you usually come across titles like War and Peace, or Crime and Punishment, that although classics, they are super dry, and everything else is just crap man. Is like giving dog food to a hungry human,thanks I guess.

Not worth the time…

It reminded me of a seminar one would attend in the conference room of a Ramada Inn…

Male reader’s treatment of female voices

There are some good ideas here, but I can’t get through them. The male reader uses a higher pitched voice when quoting female leaders. It’s embarrassing and awkward. Also — the book doesn’t get to the point until chapter 4. Borrow the print version from the library to flea glean the good ideas more efficiently and to avoid the reader’s awkward performance.