“The most useful book on creating enduring organizational change I have ever read” (Robert
Sutton author of The No Asshole Rule ) 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.
