Every initiative you add dilutes every initiative that came before it. Every objective you stack on top of the last one reduces the focus available for all of them. This is not a management theory. It is arithmetic.
Complexity Compounds is a deliberately short book about a problem hiding in plain sight: the exponential growth of complexity as it cascades from leadership to the people doing the work. Written by Calvin Williams, PhD — who has led organizations of 250, runs a hedge fund, and learned these principles the hard way — it offers a framework for radical simplification that fits on a business card.