“The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of workarounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole,” share the authors of the new book, There’s Got To Be A Better Way . And in their book, the authors, Nelson P. Repenning and Donald C. Kieffer , explain there is indeed a better way. They share the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design that improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. The discipline has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between the results promised and results delivered. The five principles of dynamic work design are: Solve the right problem – Structured problem-solving to break the biases that come with past success and help you find new levels of performance. Effective problem-solving is the engine of adaptation and agility. Structure for discovery – A series of simple...
Five years ago, I posted about the book, Humanocracy . In it, the authors, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini , present a fascinating look at how to breakdown the bureaucracy within an organization and unleash the power and true abilities of the human beings in that organization, making the organization more bold, entrepreneurial, and as nimble as change itself. Humanocracy expertly lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are inspiring and ingenious, and it provides you with research-based examples, practical guidance and, most important, action steps to take immediately. Since the book’s release, companies such as Bayer, Ferrari, Ingersoll Rand, GE Appliances, Roche Pharmaceuticals, and the US Army have embraced the book’s principles. Today brings the extensively updated and expanded edition of Humanocracy . It features new case studies and timely insights drawn from the last five years. “Since the first edition, the stakes have only g...