Reduce the Complexity in order to Focus
About the Lecture
The lecture Reduce the Complexity in order to Focus by Simone Hoferer is from the course Managing Diversity - Get smarter on the Job. It contains the following chapters:
- Holistic Active Mindset
- Maximising Efforts
- Reflection
- Merging Perspectives
- Reflective Mindset
- Analytic Mindset
- Cooperative/Collaborative Mindset
- Action Mindset
- Contingency Theory
- Reducing Complexity
Included Quiz Questions
Which concepts and models may help you to reduce complexity?
- The Five-Forces-Model by Porter
- The 6 Marketing P’s
- The context framework by Khanna et al. or the geovalent elements by Guisinger
- The 8 Market Assess Model by Porter
- The international business efficiency model by Guisinger
In the centre of a holistic action mindset is the reflective mindset. What does the reflective mindset stand for?
- It stands for the self and individual reflection. You need to be aware of yourself, your identity, abilities, limits, where you want to go to and reflect your actions.
- It stands for the organization as a system and the combination of activities. You need to analyse your surroundings.
- It stands for people and relationships and getting things done with others.
- It stands for your employees and that you have to reflect their behaviour and actions.
The analytic mindset…
- is about understanding an organization as a system, figuring out what is going on and having the courage and willingness to take care of the problems.
- is the least important one of all the mindsets.
- deals with working glocally and accepting the context by understanding internal and external factors.
- deals with reflecting your own individual behavior and understanding yourself, your identity, abilities, limits and where you want to go to.
What is required on a personal view?
- Excellent management skills by knowing where the own expertise ends
- The ability to deal with complexity by knowing that there is not one solution
- A holistic mindset: reflective, analytic, glocal, cooperative and collaborative to action
- Strong self-confidence by knowing how to strengthen own weaknesses
- The ability to reduce complexity in order to create the best solution
Focus needs ...
- the ability to gather information, to understand, and to use information and symbols in order to transfer and act in dependence on the current situation.
- the ability to be attentive at first hand and to prioritize in a second step.
- the ability to concentrate and to delete unworthy information and symbols in order to act independently and sovereign.
- the ability to be attentive at first hand but prioritize and judge quickly by planing next steps.
Author of lecture Reduce the Complexity in order to Focus
Simone Hoferer
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