Understanding Organizations- unraveling their complexity

Why do most businesses make their organizations so complex? According to a new study by The Economist Intelligence Unit, 55 percent of all surveyed organizations would call their operational structure very or extremely complicated. Only 1 percent – around three of the 331 executive respondents – believed their business was not complex at all. So why do we do this to ourselves, and is there an easier way to do business? In this episode, we speak with an expert on organizational structures and try to dissect why they are like they are and how we can simplify them.