“The most useful book on creating enduring organizational change I have ever read” (Robert Sutton, author of  The No Asshole Rule ) Named a Best Book of the Year by  Behavioral Scientist  and  Next Big Idea Club The chaos of everyday business forces people into an exhausting, ineffective, seemingly never-ending cycle of work-arounds, firefighting, and Whac-a-Mole. The irritatingly urgent crowds out the lastingly important.    There has to be a better way.   And there is: the game-changing discipline of dynamic work design improves productivity, reduces costs, and increases efficiency, ensuring that all parts of a company can work in concert. It has been used in organizations around the world to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.  The five principles of dynamic work design—solve the right problem, structure for discovery, connect the human chain, regulate for flow, visualize the work—have yielded breakthrough results in settings ranging from biotech labs and hospitals to oil refineries, homeless shelters, and casinos.    Large-scale change initiatives, reorganizations, and productivity programs are costly, rarely improve productivity, and always add a lot of busywork. There’s Got to Be a Better Way is an antidote, transforming how you understand your own tasks and your organization’s workflow, allowing you to redesign your work to boost productivity, profit and genuine engagement.  Named a Best Book of the Year by  Behavioral Scientist  and  Next Big Idea Club Longlisted for a Porchlight Business Book Award “A road map to eliminating inefficiencies and busting bureaucracies. Drawing on rigorous research and rich experience inside a wide range of workplaces, Nelson Repenning and Donald Kieffer reveal how to redesign work to do more in less time.”  ― Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again “Repenning and Kieffer are absolutely right: there's got to be a better way to work than what we’re doing now! Fortunately, their theory of dynamic work design offers exactly the type of compelling alternative we’ve been so desperately searching for.”― Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Deep Work “The most useful book on creating enduring organizational change I have ever read. This masterpiece shows why, when leaders try to change organizations for the better, they so often make things worse by focusing on fighting fires rather than fixing root causes.  There’s Got to Be a Better Way   shows how savvy leaders can, instead, solve the right problems and build organizations that are consistently innovative, resilient, and reliable.” ― Robert I. Sutton, New York Times bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule “If you want to solve the business problem you thought was unsolvable, look no further than this incisive new book, which presents a smart new way to unlock fast fixes to your once intractable challenges. It’s a mindset makeover!”  ― Suzy Welch, New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Real-Life MBA “There’s Got to be a Better Way  indeed offers one. Blending expertise in system dynamics and behavioral science, along with decades of real-world practical experience, authors Nelson Repenning and Don Kieffer teamed up to write this groundbreaking new book. In it, they describe a compellingly actionable learning process for solving the most perplexing and persistent problems that plague every large organization. A must-read for leaders in any industry facing complexity, uncertainty, and pressure for results.” ― Amy C. Edmondson, author of Right Kind of Wrong “There is a better way! I’ve seen it, and I promise you it’s possible. Overloaded, over regulated organizations are not only wildly inefficient—there are absolutely no fun to work in. In this eminently practical and deeply grounded book, Nelson Repenning and Don Kieffer draw on their decades of experience to show us all how we can build the kind of creative, extraordinarily productive workplaces most people only dream about.”  ― Rebecca Henderson, author of Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire “ There’s Got to Be a Better Way emphasizes the power of dynamic leadership in the fast-paced world we live in. This is a great roadmap for learning how to identify core challenges, embrace flexibility, and experiment with new ideas to refine processes that have been holding your team back. Understanding how to swiftly identify the issue will allow leaders to pivot quickly—or boldly move in a different direction—without the fear of failure. Problem-solving in this way will ultimately drive long-term success and collaboration.”― Joe Eastin, executive chairman and co-founder, ISN “In There’s Got to Be a Better Way , Nelson Repenning and Donald Kieffer deliver a compelling roadmap for overcoming organizational inertia. With a wealth of real-world case studies and a proven framework, the authors introduce Dynamic Work Design—a practical, principle-driven approach that helps lea