Brave New Work
By Aaron Dignan
Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization? Portfolio, 2019.
Summary of Brave New Work book by Aaron Dignan
A novel approach to work that encourages consultants, business leaders, and managers at all levels to replace top-down bureaucratic practices with a people positive approach toward dealing effectively with complex, global business challenges—while inspiring more meaningful, company-wide results.
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What do you get from this book? Learn how to upgrade your organizational operating system when work stops working
Our businesses, governments, and economies are deeply dysfunctional—it’s time to recognize their complexities and stop trying to control them
Being people positive and complexity conscious are the two foundational mindsets that enable organizations to become evolutionary
Companies need new operating systems with a clear purpose that can capture their essential intent
Bureaucracy is like a cancer—it spreads when legacy organizations centralize authority and limit decision-making to a few
Formal organizational structures don’t improve the customer experience and need to be replaced by more informal value-creation models
Legacy organizations fail when they stick to outdated strategies and ways of handling resources
Evolutionary organizations that allow for experimentation are more likely to take risks and innovate
Workflows are the blurry areas between organizational structure and value-added processes, but are full of people positive opportunities
Evolutionary organizations still have meetings—but they focus on collaboration, change management, and reducing complexity
Evolutionary businesses practice transparency when sharing information and don’t divide employees based on membership
How employees develop their mastery and grow is strongly linked to how they are incentivized and compensated
Make change part of your culture by starting small and embracing a learn-by-doing mentality
Evolutionary organizations are just the beginning—it’s time to upgrade economic and environmental operating systems before it’s too late
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Who should read Brave New Work book
- Entrepreneurs
- executives and business leaders
- managers and team leaders
- people who work in HR
- anyone interested in the future of work
About the author of Brave New Work
Aaron Dignan
As the founder of globally-recognized coaching practice The Ready, Aaron Dignan has advised numerous startups on how to overcome traditional operating systems by embracing new, more dynamic business models. He has helped companies as large as Microsoft and ensured steady growth for smaller brands like Smashburger in roles that vary from active angel investor to board member.
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