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Brave New Work

Brave New Work

By Aaron Dignan

Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization? Portfolio, 2019.

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17 Key insights

A brief summary of Brave New Work

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.

Key insights in Brave New Work

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What do you get from this book? Learn how to upgrade your organizational operating system when work stops working
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Our businesses, governments, and economies are deeply dysfunctional—it’s time to recognize their complexities and stop trying to control them
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Being people positive and complexity conscious are the two foundational mindsets that enable organizations to become evolutionary
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Companies need new operating systems with a clear purpose that can capture their essential intent
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Bureaucracy is like a cancer—it spreads when legacy organizations centralize authority and limit decision-making to a few
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Formal organizational structures don’t improve the customer experience and need to be replaced by more informal value-creation models
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Legacy organizations fail when they stick to outdated strategies and ways of handling resources
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Evolutionary organizations that allow for experimentation are more likely to take risks and innovate
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Workflows are the blurry areas between organizational structure and value-added processes, but are full of people positive opportunities
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Evolutionary organizations still have meetings—but they focus on collaboration, change management, and reducing complexity
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Evolutionary businesses practice transparency when sharing information and don’t divide employees based on membership
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How employees develop their mastery and grow is strongly linked to how they are incentivized and compensated
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Make change part of your culture by starting small and embracing a learn-by-doing mentality
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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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Selected critiques in brief
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Final word

Who should read Brave New Work

Entrepreneurs • executives and business leaders • managers and team leaders • investors • people who work in HR • anyone interested in the future of work

About the author of Brave New Work

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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