Four Books to Help You Overhaul Everything at Work
The scorched-earth reading list.
Four books suggest you overhaul everything at work, including your allotted business book reading time. So we read them for you. Bottom line: Abandon everything that’s not nimble, fast, and friendly.
Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization?
By Aaron Dignan
Premise: The practices of many organizations are ancient and based on outdated assumptions that are rarely reconsidered—like an operating system that needs a revamp. Are time-intensive performance reviews the best use of managers’ hours? Probably not. Are there better, more efficient ways to help employees achieve? Yes.
Action plan: Overhaul your existing organization—its purpose, structure, workflows, all of it. Make it more fluid, like the Hollywood ecosystem: Directors, cinematographers, and editors organize and reorganize around projects and hold multiple roles on different productions at the same time.