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To: Neocon who wrote (2354)	4/21/1999 8:41:00 PM
From: MeDroogies	Respond to of 13060

Actually, at my current company (I will decline to name it as that got me in trouble once at another firm), what is making us so successful (and we are extraordinarily successful) is the ability to reduce things to basics and allow this to "build up" naturally into complex interactions. The basic rules of how people should approach their jobs remains simple and unchanged, the processes remain simple, the rules simple. By avoiding complexity, we reduce contradiction. Complexity then arises naturally and can be managed usefully. At my old firm, they felt it necessary to manage details to the nth degree, set rules on how people do their jobs, when they had to be in....etc. It made for a very uncomfortable work environment. The company was/is successful (for now), but not because of the built in complexity. It was because they entered a small niche market that was underdeveloped. Their success is now stagnating (their market is growing 20% while they grow at 13% - without any real competition) due to their reliance on overly complex approaches. What you consider dogmatism is extraordinarily successful in real life. You should try to simplify things, you'd be surprised how a simple approach yields complex results spontaneously. If you haven't read anything about Chaos (or Complexity) Theory, it would be very worthwhile. After reading a number of books/articles and attending several seminars, I was hooked. I haven't found a situation or processe that can't be explained simply or reduced and understood on a very simple basis. I've found most of the other "factors" usually tend to be tertiary.