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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

810: How to Get Stuff Done inside Bureaucracies with Marina Nitze

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Marina Nitze reveals what makes bureaucracies tick and how you can work your way through them.  


— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Why bureaucracies can actually be great 

2) Six favorite bureaucracy hacks 

3) What not to do when trying to challenge a bureaucracy 


Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep810 for clickable versions of the links below. 


— ABOUT MARINA — 

Marina Nitze, co-author of the new book Hack Your Bureaucracy, is a partner at Layer Aleph, a crisis response firm specializing in restoring complex software systems to service. Marina is also a fellow at New America's New Practice Lab, where she improves America's foster care system through the Resource Family Working Group and Child Welfare Playbook. Marina was the CTO of the VA after serving as a Senior Advisor on technology in the Obama White House. She lives in Seattle.

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

• Twitter: @MarinaNitze 

• Website: HackYourBureaucracy.com 


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Book: Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

• Book: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen

• Book: Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

• Book: The Success Principles(TM): How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.1

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.1

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McHydus.

0:16.1

Hello and welcome to episode 810 with Marina Nitsa.

0:23.0

Marina has so much fun inside her perspective on how you can hack your bureaucracy.

0:28.1

That stuff done, no matter how much red tape or process stuff you got to deal with in

0:32.4

your organization, she's got pro tips from her own towering experience, as well as that

0:37.9

of many of the people she's worked with and interviewed and spoken with so much good

0:42.0

stuff.

0:43.0

So you'll learn one, why bureaucracies could actually be great to six favorite bureaucracy

0:48.0

hacks.

0:49.0

And three, what not to do when trying to challenge a bureaucracy.

0:52.8

So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or some of the links to bits

0:55.7

that we mentioned here, please visit us at awesome at your job.com slash EP 810.

1:01.6

Now here's Marina story.

1:02.6

Marina Nitsa is co-author of the new book, Hack Your Bureaucracy, and a partner at Layer

1:07.1

Alif, a crisis response firm, specializing in restoring complex software systems to service.

1:12.6

Marina is also a fellow about new America's new practice lab where she improves America's

1:16.1

foster care system through the resource family working group and child welfare playbook.

1:20.8

Marina was the CTO of the VA after serving as a senior advisor on technology in the Obama

1:26.4

White House.

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