Aaron Dignan on Challenging Assumptions and Operating System of an Organization
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
Erik Fisher
4.5 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Dignan is the founder of The Ready, an organization design and transformation firm that helps institutions like Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Airbnb, and charity: water change the way they work. He is a co-founder of responsive.org, an investor in purpose-driven startups, and a friend to misfit toys.
Aaron’s new book is Brave New Work: Are You Ready to Reinvent Your Organization? In this conversation, Aaron talks about challenging the assumptions about the future of work, the organizational operating system and making the necessary changes to move forward.
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| 1:29.7 | Hello and welcome back to another episode of Beyond the To Do-List. |
| 1:31.0 | I'm your host, Eric Fisher. |
| 1:33.9 | This is the show where I talk to the people behind the productivity. |
| 1:38.2 | This week I'm sharing with you a conversation that I had with Aaron Dignan. |
| 1:43.1 | He's from an organization called The Ready, where they reinvent your organization. This is all about work in an organization, |
| 1:47.0 | work in a company, work in a business, work in a nonprofit, for that matter, any group of |
| 1:51.0 | people with a similar goal that are working towards something, end goal, a project, an achievement |
| 1:57.0 | of a project. This is all about that. It's all about working together. It's about rethinking how we structure our organizations. It's all about challenging the assumptions of |
| 2:06.9 | the organizational operating system. This was fascinating to me, and I'll give a little bit of a |
| 2:12.8 | spoiler here, but when you think operating system, you think tech, when you think organism, |
| 2:18.7 | you think living, breathing, think organism, you think living, |
| 2:24.5 | breathing, organic matter. And so putting those together, modern day organizations are like cyborgs in a sense. This is a really fun conversation for me to have had with Aaron. I love |
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