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Brave New Work

Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
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In Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan explores how companies can transform traditional work practices to meet the changing demands of an evolving business landscape. He outlines strategies for creating adaptive, human-centred organisations that foster creativity, efficiency, and resilience. Dignan delves into practical methods for redesigning operational systems to empower teams and enhance overall productivity.
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This book may appeal to you if you're intrigued by innovative business strategies and are eager to redefine organisational effectiveness. You might enjoy exploring how companies can operate differently to unlock potential and thrive in the modern workplace. The author offers unconventional insights into establishing a more adaptive and dynamic approach to work.

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A breathless and revolutionary new guide on how to change the ways your company works forever, to increase productivity, profits and staff morale.

The way we work is broken. Despite the enthusiasm that surrounded the emergence of hybrid working, the same problems persist— it takes forever to get anything done, meetings and emails are unceasingly incessant, and bureaucracy continues to stifle creativity and talent. Is this really the best we can do?

Aaron Dignan has built a career teaching companies how to eliminate the red tape, tap into collective intelligence, and rethink long-held traditions that no longer make sense—and, in doing so, foster genuine innovation, loyalty and growth. In Brave New Work, he uses stories and experiences gathered from that career to lay out a fearless manifesto for a new type of work.

This book will show you how to transform your team, department or business from the inside out, making work more adaptable, enjoyable and human. It's packed with tactics and tips for updating your company's operating system—the assumptions so deeply embedded within your organisation that you don't even know you're being crippled by them.

Learn how to reignite passion and energy throughout your organisation, how to fight against the Great Resignation, and, ultimately, how to build a company that runs itself.

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Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan receives praise for its insightful approach to rethinking traditional business structures and management practices. Readers appreciate Dignan's focus on adaptive, agile, and autonomous organisational models, offering practical examples on how companies can transform and thrive in today's fast-paced environment. Critics highlight its engaging narrative and actionable strategies, suggesting it as a valuable resource for entrepreneurs and leaders who seek to innovate their workplace culture.

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ISBN: 9780241998731

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 223g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready--a global organizational transformation and coaching practice--that helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. Clients include Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Lloyds Bank, Citibank, Boeing, Mailchimp, Airbnb, Dropbox, and charity- water. He is also the founder of Murmur--a SaaS startup that helps teams scale culture through the magic of working agreements. The Murmur platform will allow every team on the planet to define and share their ways of working. Dignan is the author of Brave New Work (2019) and Game Frame (2011), co-host of the Brave New Work podcast, and a friend to misfit toys.

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