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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 Nelson P. Repenning

A framework for redesigning everyday work

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A framework for redesigning everyday work

Nelson P. Repenning focuses on the gap between urgent day-to-day demands and the work that produces lasting results. The book presents dynamic work design as a way to examine tasks and organizational workflows, outlining five principles: solving the right problem, structuring for discovery, connecting the human chain, regulating for flow, and visualizing the work. Examples span settings including hospitals, biotech labs, oil refineries, shelters, and casinos, giving the framework a cross-industry scope. Its subject is practical organizational change: how work is arranged, where interruptions and work-arounds arise, and how teams might coordinate more effectively.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Managers and leaders examining organizational workflows and productivity
  • People involved in process improvement or large-scale workplace change
  • Readers interested in applying structured problem-solving across different industries

Themes

Dynamic work designOrganizational changeWorkflow and coordinationProductivity and efficiency

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Book overview

"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.
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