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BRAVE NEW WORK

Aaron Dignan

Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?

Aaron Dignan helps his clients get unstuck by teaching them how to eliminate red tape, tap into collective intelligence, and rethink long-held traditions that no longer make sense. Now he shows us how to do the same.
Are you and your colleagues frustrated by policies that slow you down? Unsure how to reorganize for an era of uncertainty? Overwhelmed by the sheer complexity of your organization? Afraid your team will lose its culture as it grows? Distracted from real work by the deluge of meetings and email?

You're not alone - and Aaron Dignan can show you a better way. He helps companies around the world use a proven process to become much less bureaucratic and rigid. His book is packed with new tactics and strategies for updating your company's operating system: the fundamental assumptions so deeply embedded that we don't even think to question them (e.g. budgets should be done annually; employees need financial incentives; marketers should sit with marketers, etc.).

Dignan illuminates twelve areas where your organization might be squandering its potential. Among his questions:

· Is it clear who can make decisions? And are decisions made at the edge, where the market is changing? Or do ideas die on the journey up the chain of command, or worse, in committees and consensus?
· Is your organizational information accessible, searchable, and usable by everyone? Or are your best ideas trapped in email chains and PowerPoints?
· Are you working in a hierarchy of slow, uncoordinated functions, or a flexible network of dynamic teams?

BRAVE NEW WORK is for managers frustrated with bureaucracy yet suspicious of newfangled approaches where no one has a boss. Dignan offers realistic methods for testing and scaling new ways of working without terrifying anyone, so you can reignite passion and energy throughout your organization.


Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready, an organization design and transformation company based in New York. He is also the cofounder of Responsive.org, a nonprofit movement focused on the future of work with thousands of members globally.
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Published 2019-02-19 by Portfolio

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Published 2019-02-19 by Portfolio

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If you're trying to create a world-changing culture, reading Brave New Work should be your next move. Aaron's simple, counterintuitive approach will help you get out of your own way, eliminate bureaucracy, and awaken the humanity within.

BRAVE NEW WORK is chosen as a Business Books to Watch in February: Aaron Dignan is the driver behind some of today's most agile, fastest-scaling companies. In this book, he reveals his tested strategies for eliminating red tape, dissolving bureaucracy, and doing the best work of your life. Read more...

Human beings can't thrive in a work culture that uses burnout and 'being always on' as proxies for dedication and success. In Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan shows us that, in fact, workplaces that empower people to take care of themselves are far more likely to deliver sustainable performance and happiness.

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This book will teach you to wrestle and win against workplace bureaucracy. Aaron cuts to the core of what makes teams successful by realigning hearts, minds, and egos. He always sparks better outcomes, and his book will be just the spark you need to get started.

An interview with founder, author, and Lean Startup Conference 2018 speaker Aaron Dignan Read more...

We tend to look for answers by looking reflectively backward - it's what we've all been taught in school. But Dignan insists that the "best practices" of the past no longer work because the bureaucracies of existing organizations have been defeated by new technologies. Instead we can only find those answers by "living in the now" the way a new breed of organization is already beginning to master.

This is the management book of the year. Clear, powerful and urgent, it's a must read for anyone who cares about where they work and how they work.

Aaron Dignan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio Read more...

Complexity conscious. People positive. These words from Aaron's book keep ringing in my ears as I work. He reframes the way we see companies and the way we see each other inside them, and gives us practical tools to transform ourselves and our environments. Whether you lead a company, work at one, or imagine yourself founding one someday, read this book immediately and start an evolution.

This book is a breath of fresh air. Aaron Dignan offers a bold, ennobling vision for a world of work that enhances our dignity and freedom rather than degrading and constraining us. Read it now, and make sure your boss does too.

As a part of my series about "Big Ideas That Might Change The World In The Next Few Years" I had the pleasure of interviewing Aaron Dignan... Read more...

I am now a convert. Aaron sums up all the crazy ideas about how to create teams and companies that maximize their potential by decentralizing their power - a once idealist notion that is now possible and essential. For a book that might start a revolution, it's surprisingly practical and undogmatic. There's no fluff - it's all meat, and real news. I could think of dozens of people I know who I now want to read and study it.

The one-size-fits-all monoculture is a thing of the past. Brave New Work shows us how to embrace the oh-so-human complexity of our organizations - and discover a new way of working that makes room for the many styles, perspectives, needs, and gifts trapped inside them.

I really never believed in any of this organizational stuff until I saw Aaron Dignan at work. He can help almost any dysfunctional group find common purpose, discern the simple patterns underlying the most complex situations, and guide wayward organizations back to their core values. Most impressively, he can translate all that into language even a businessperson can understand and enjoy.

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