• Hack Your Bureaucracy

  • Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
  • By: Marina Nitze, Nick Sinai
  • Narrated by: Julian Thomas
  • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (31 ratings)

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Hack Your Bureaucracy

By: Marina Nitze, Nick Sinai
Narrated by: Julian Thomas
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Publisher's summary

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.

©2022 Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai (P)2022 Hachette Go

Critic reviews

"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

“A deeply empowering and practical book: for anyone, anywhere, who just wants to GET STUFF DONE.”—Cecilia Muñoz, former Director, White House Domestic Policy Council under President Obama

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Great Concepts

Great tools to support change in any organization that supports radical change. This book is a most have for your personal library.

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Better for Senior and Mid-Level Employees than New Ones

This book is good and offers techniques to get through bureaucratic bogs. However, it’s more geared for people already in positions of authority rather than newer employees.

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Highly Recommend

This was a great layout of how to approach complex and bureaucratic problems. 100% recommend.

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Thinking outside the Box

This book gives a whole new meaning, to to thinking outside the Box. Well still remaining inside the Box of business. How they make it fun to be A bureaucracy hacker, I will never know. Full of Inspiring Well researched examples of others experiences as bureaucracy hackers. Clever, Resourceful and Informative. A must read to invoke change.

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  • 05-30-23

no story just lists of ideas from google

this is just a list of "maybe try...." with a bunch of examples you've thought of or tried before or found on Google rather than any real specific system that gets results.

very disappointing.

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