#158 Aaron Dignan: Change The Way You Work

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

What if you could change the way your company operates, even if you’re not the CEO? Aaron Dignan believes it’s possible, and in this episode he’s offering a wealth of insights into how organizations are run, the perils of stagnant bureaucracy, and all the various hurdles keeping us from doing our best work.

As the founder of The Ready - a global organizational transformation and coaching practice - Dignan helps companies large and small adopt new forms of self-organization and dynamic teaming. He’s worked with clients such as American Express, Microsoft, Citibank, Hyatt, Johnson & Johnson, Airbnb, and Sweetgreen. He’s also an active angel investor who helps build partnerships between the startups and end-ups he advises. Dignan is also the author of Brave New Work, co-host of the Brave New Work podcast and founder of Murmur.

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0:00.0	I mean, there's no such thing as a big company really.
0:02.7	I think the main thing I deal with folks ask me about doing this at scale is like,
0:07.3	there's no such thing as Apple or Amazon, right?
0:09.6	Like, that's not actually a real thing.
0:11.0	There are groups of 150, 300, 500 people that live their whole lives with each other
0:16.6	and just like very rarely interface with other divisions and units.
0:20.1	And, you know, it's 50 small companies that are just under the same banner
0:23.9	with a set of shared principles.
0:25.7	And that's kind of it.
0:27.2	And that's their company.
0:45.2	Welcome to the Knowledge Project Podcast.
0:47.2	I'm your host, Shane Parrish.
0:49.8	The goal of this show is to master the best what other people have already figured out.
0:54.2	To do that, I sit down with people at the top of their game to uncover the useful lessons
0:58.3	you can learn and apply in life and business.
1:02.0	If you're listening to this, you're missing out.
1:03.9	If you'd like special member only episodes, access before anyone else, hand-edited transcripts
1:09.3	and other member only content, you can join at fs.blog slash membership.
1:14.3	Check out the show notes for a link.
1:16.7	Today I'm speaking with Aaron Dignan.
1:19.4	As the founder of the Ready, he helps companies large and small work better.
1:23.4	To many of us, work feels broken.
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