Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team

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Two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizations of all types and sizes. Hack Your Bureaucracy will show you how to get big things done and make a lasting impact, whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo association bylaws. With broad experience in the public and private sectors--including the White House, Harvard, venture capital, and local government--authors Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have made real reforms in some of the world's most challenging bureaucracies. In this highly entertaining guide to getting stuff done, Nitze and Sinai tell their stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hackers, as they teach strategies that anyone can use--including how to make "paperclip" trades, recruit unofficial "doers", give credit liberally, stab colleagues in the chest, and use the bureaucracy against itself. Making change in organizations is hard. It ...