Good morning. Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan said something to me recently that has stuck in my mind: “If you want an organization that’s able to navigate complexity in the external world,” he said, “you have to radically take out complexity internally.”That’s prompted Narasimhan to focus on taking out layers of leadership, eliminating roles and reducing headcount to create a leaner and simpler organization. “We underestimate the cognitive load on our management and leaders when they have to spend time figurin ...