Hack Your Bureaucracy, Marina Nitze
Hack Your Bureaucracy, Marina Nitze
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Hack Your Bureaucracy
Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team

Author: Marina Nitze, Nick Sinai

Narrator: Julian Thomas

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Balance

Published: 09/13/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

In this "deeply empowering and practical book"(Cecilia Muñoz), two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizations of all types and sizes. Whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo association bylaws, it’s time to it’s time to learn how to get big things done and make a lasting impact with Hack Your Bureaucracy.

From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies—and won. Now, they bring their years of experience to you, teaching you strategies anyone can use to improve your organization through their own stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hackers, including: Find Your Paperclip: use small steps to achieve big change Set Your North Star: keep your end goal in sight Cultivate the Karass: assemble an adept team and network Don’t Waste a Crisis: turn every opportunity into a chance for change And more! Change doesn’t happen just because the person in charge declares it should, even if that person is the CEO of your company or the President of the United States. Regardless of your industry, role, or team, Hack Your Bureaucracy shows how to get started, take initiative on your own, and transform your ideas into impact.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jen on September 12, 2022

I’ve worked many years inside nonprofit organizations that get stuck in their ways and tend to avoid risky innovations. For those of us who love making an impact through our work but often get sidelined by things like tradition, death by committee, or an aversion to upsetting donors, I deeply apprec......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin on September 14, 2022

Nick Sinai and Marina Nitze have given a gift to anyone who is trying to drive change in a complex environment. The strategy names are sticky. The descriptions put into to words methods that I had seen or experienced in action but hadn't been able to articulate how or why they worked and so couldn't......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 12, 2022

I have been innovating within DoD for 20 years. That is a long time, and I have learned a lot along the way. As I look back, however, I don’t recall anyone really teaching me how to be effective in creating change inside the world’s largest bureaucracy. Instead, I have had to take responsibility for......more

Goodreads review by Angelica on September 11, 2022

Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have pulled together a book of the tips, tricks, and hacks they learned from years of working and leading in the private sector and public sector, at the federal level and the local level. Full disclosure: I read an early copy of the book and provided feedback, and worked......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on September 11, 2022

I read this book in galleys and it's as brilliant and useful as you'd expect from Marina and Nick, the two people who have made more happen in bureaucracies than anyone I know. Getting things done in bureaucracies is hard, but it's critical to our future, as we face enormous challenges and need big......more

Quotes

“If you’ve ever been frustrated by red tape, think of this book as a pair of scissors. Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai are master bureaucracy busters, and their experience in the White House shows how you can root out inefficiency in your own backyard.”—Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and host of the TED podcast WorkLife

"I’ve never read a book with so many good ideas. Every page that I read, I kicked myself, thinking back on all the times I tried to make change and failed. If Hack Your Bureaucracy had been written 30 years earlier, I would have accomplished so much more in my life."—Steven Levitt, author of Freakonomics and University of Chicago professor

"A master class on intrapreneurship. If you want to drive change in large organizations, Hack Your Bureaucracy is a must read."—Eric Schmidt, co-founder of Schmidt Futures and former CEO of Google

"To tackle the biggest challenges we face on the planet, we will have to make bureaucracies work.  Marina and Nick show us how. Practical, insightful, and totally spot-on, Hack Your Bureaucracy is essential reading for everyone from frustrated leaders to ambitious newcomers." —Jen Pahlka, Founder, Code for America and former U.S. Deputy CTO

“Whether you are revamping your small business, helping to improve the PTA, or leading a scaled organization, this book has something for you. Marina and Nick take solving complex organizational problems and driving outcomes to a new level. Hack Your Bureaucracy is a step-step-guide on how to have impact one practical step at a time. Their bureaucracy hacking advice is thoughtful, tested and useful wisdom for those leading in any sector.” —Tara McGuinness, co-author of Power to the Public, founder, New Practice Lab

"Nick and Marina are incredibly gifted change agents, and in Hack Your Bureaucracy, they provide hard-won lessons and wisdom that will be invaluable to everyone from entrepreneurs trying to build great companies to innovators working to change institutions of all kinds from the inside out. Like working with Nick and Marina, the book is energizing, inspiring, and an absolute blast— a how-to manual for driving change unlike any other."—Todd Park, cofounder of Devoted Health, Athenahealth, and Castlight Health and former U.S. CTO

"Having worked for decades in the Defense Department, including having had the top three jobs, I know how important it is to empower people. I’ve seen it with both military service members and DoD civilian employees across a variety of roles: with hustle, grit, organizational savviness, and teamwork, you can take a good idea all the way through successful execution. In Hack Your Bureaucracy, Nick and Marina—world-class bureaucracy hackers themselves—present an actionable and fun guide to getting things done, even in the most challenging of environments."—Secretary Ash Carter, former Secretary of Defense

"I spent nearly three years as the U.S. Air Force Chief Information Officer working every day to hack my bureaucracy. I wish I knew then what I see now in the straightforward and well-thought prescriptions laid out in this book… a must-read for enlightened organizations and leaders looking to inspire the process changes and cultural mindset shifts necessary to hack their bureaucracies!"—Bill Bender, Lt Gen (Ret) USAF, SVP, Customer Excellence, Leidos

"Nick and Marina are masters of the dark arts of bureaucracy hacking. Hack Your Bureaucracy is full of dozens of tactics that I've used, and many more that I plan to!  Anyone who wants to make change at scale--in the U.S. Air Force, or in any organization of significance--should read this book." —Lauren Knausenberger,, CIO, U.S. Air Force

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