There's Got to Be a Better Way
How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work
By Donald C. Kieffer, Nelson P. Repenning | Publisher: PublicAffairs
About the book
“The most useful book on creating enduring organizational change I have ever read” (Robert Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule)
Named a Best Book of the Year by Behavioral Scientist and Next Big Idea Club
The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly urgent crowds out the lastingly important.
There has to be a better way.
And there is: the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.
The five principles of dynamic work design—solve the right problem, structure for discovery, connect the human chain, regulate for flow, visualize the work—have yielded breakthrough results in settings ranging from biotech labs and hospitals to oil refineries, homeless shelters, and casinos.
Large-scale change initiatives, reorganizations, and productivity programs are costly, rarely improve productivity, and always add a lot of busywork. There’s Got to Be a Better Way is an antidote, transforming how you understand your own tasks and your organization’s workflow, allowing you to redesign your work to boost productivity, profit and genuine engagement.
Editions of There's Got to Be a Better Way
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781541704626
- EBook
- ISBN 9781541704633
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“The most useful book on creating enduring organizational change I have ever read” (Robert Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule)
Named a Best Book of the Year by Behavioral Scientist and Next Big Idea Club
The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly urgent crowds out the lastingly important.
There has to be a better way.
And there is: the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.
The five principles of dynamic work design—solve the right problem, structure for discovery, connect the human chain, regulate for flow, visualize the work—have yielded breakthrough results in settings ranging from biotech labs and hospitals to oil refineries, homeless shelters, and casinos.
Large-scale change initiatives, reorganizations, and productivity programs are costly, rarely improve productivity, and always add a lot of busywork. There’s Got to Be a Better Way is an antidote, transforming how you understand your own tasks and your organization’s workflow, allowing you to redesign your work to boost productivity, profit and genuine engagement.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is There's Got to Be a Better Way about?
“The most useful book on creating enduring organizational change I have ever read” (Robert Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule)
Named a Best Book of the Year by Behavioral Scientist and Next Big Idea Club
The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly urgent crowds out the lastingly important.
There has to be a better way.
And there is: the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.
The five principles of dynamic work design—solve the right problem, structure for discovery, connect the human chain, regulate for flow, visualize the work—have yielded breakthrough results in settings ranging from biotech labs and hospitals to oil refineries, homeless shelters, and casinos.
Large-scale change initiatives, reorganizations, and productivity programs are costly, rarely improve productivity, and always add a lot of busywork. There’s Got to Be a Better Way is an antidote, transforming how you understand your own tasks and your organization’s workflow, allowing you to redesign your work to boost productivity, profit and genuine engagement.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in There's Got to Be a Better Way?
Economics, Finance, Business and Management > Business and Management > Management and management techniques > Management: leadership and motivation
Where can I read a sample of There's Got to Be a Better Way?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781541704626
Who is/are the Author/s of the book There's Got to Be a Better Way?
Donald C. Kieffer, Nelson P. Repenning
Who is the Publisher of the book There's Got to Be a Better Way?
PublicAffairs
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
There's Got to Be a Better Way is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781541704626) and ebook(ISBN 9781541704633)
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