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There’s Got to Be a Better Way

How to Deliver Results and Get Rid of the Stuff That Gets in the Way of Real Work

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By Nelson P. Repenning

By Donald C. Kieffer

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On Sale
Aug 26, 2025
Page Count
320 pages
Publisher
PublicAffairs
ISBN-13
9781541704633

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$19.99

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$25.99 CAD

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  1. Hardcover

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A groundbreaking method for clearing the organizational roadblocks that keep you from doing your job and delivering results

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 the 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 rarely improve productivity, are expensive, and always add a lot of busy work. There’s Got to Be a Better Way is an antidote, enabling you to rethink basic beliefs about your tasks, changing the way you see and think about the flow of work in your organization, and allowing you to redesign your work to boost productivity and profit. 

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • Business & Economics
  • Leadership

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Nelson P. Repenning

About the Author

Nelson P. Repenning is the School of Management Distinguished Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the director of MIT’s Leadership Center and Poets & Quants named him one of the world’s top executive MBA instructors. He lives in Cambridge, MA.

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Donald C. Kieffer

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Donald C. Kieffer is a senior lecturer in operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and founder of ShiftGear Work Design. He was previously vice president of operational excellence for Harley-Davidson. He lives in Somerville, MA and Burlingame, CA.

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