Brave New Work, Dignan, Aaron

Nearly every client Aaron Dignan meets, from Wall Street to Silicon Valley, points to the same frustrations: lack of trust, bottlenecks in decision making, siloed functions and teams, meeting and email overload, tiresome budgeting, short-term thinking, and more.

Is there any hope for a solution? Havent countless business gurus promised the answer, yet changed almost nothing about the way we work?

Thats because we fail to recognize that organizations arent machines to be predicted and controlled. Theyre complex human systems full of potential waiting to be released.

Dignan says you cant fix a team, department, or organization by tinkering around the edges. Over the years, he has helped his clients completely reinvent their operating systems--the fundamental principles and practices that shape their culture--with extraordinary success. And theyre not alone.

Imagine a bank that abandoned traditional budgeting, only to outperform its competition for decades. An appliance manufacturer that divided itself into 2,000 autonomous teams, resulting not in chaos but rapid growth. A healthcare provider with a headquarters of just 50 people supporting over 14,000 in the field--named best place to work year after year. And even a team that saved $3 million per year by cancelling one monthly meeting.

Their stories may sound improbable, but in Brave New Work youll learn exactly how they and other organizations are inventing a smarter, healthier, andmore effective way to work. Not through top-down mandates, but through a groundswell of autonomy, trust, and transparency.