Revolutionising Bureaucracy: Tactics for Lasting Change with Marina Nitze

12/19/23 • 51 min

Marina Nitze is an author and a crisis engineer. She co-authored Hack Your Bureaucracy with Nick Sinai, it contains over 50 tactics, each with real-world examples, for making lasting change in bureaucracies from PTAs all the way up to the White House and Fortune 500 companies.

Marina is currently focused on improving America’s child welfare system, helping organisations solve mission-critical IT challenges. Before this she was the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and helped establish the United States Digital Service. She also served as a Senior Advisor on technology in the White House under the Obama Administration.

We talked about:

What it means to have a high-functioning bureaucracy
What hacking your (low-functioning) bureaucracy means
Where to start to get results
The mistakes that keen people make
Why Marina is obsessed with stabbing people in the chest

And much, much more.

Find out more about Marina here:

https://www.marinanitze.com/

And buy her brilliant book here:

Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on any Team https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hack-Your-Bureaucracy-Things-Matter/dp/0306827751

We talked about:

What it means to have a high-functioning bureaucracy
What hacking your (low-functioning) bureaucracy means
Where to start to get results
The mistakes that keen people make
Why Marina is obsessed with stabbing people in the chest

And much, much more.

Find out more about Marina here:

https://www.marinanitze.com/

And buy her brilliant book here:

Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on any Team https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hack-Your-Bureaucracy-Things-Matter/dp/0306827751

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Overcoming Adversity: A Journey from Depression to Outdoor Cooking Mastery with the Fell Foodie

Harrison Ward is better known as Fell Foodie.

He’s an inspirational speaker, outdoorsman and cook who loves to recreate restaurant-style meals on minimal equipment (usually a camp stove) in remote locations.

He has a vast following across various social media platforms and has featured regularly in the media including Channel 5 and BBC. He regularly delivers talks about his personal battle with depression, suicidal thoughts and alcohol highlighting a journey from an overweight, alcoholic, smoker to the fit, mountain-loving foodie he is today.

This is what Dame Mary Berry DBE said about him - "Great, classy food".

We talked about:

His journey and his catalyst for change
What he needed in order to support the change
What challenges he encountered
What habits he developed
What sustained his change
And tips for someone wanting to get healthier and fitter

His debut book is Cook Out: Fell Foodie’s Guide to Over 80 Gourmet Recipes to Cook in the Great Outdoors.

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Debunking Myths of Resilience: Science-Backed Insights with Dr Lee Williams

Dr Lee Williams is a behavioural scientist with 30 years experience helping organisations improve productivity and performance. He’s done this work across many companies – including American Express, Tesco and Dupont. He has an undergraduate degree in Pharmacology & Physiology, an MBA and a DBA from Alliance Manchester Business School where he completed the UK's first empirical study of Business Mental Toughness.

He uses this experience to measure employee well-being in his current business, KAYA.

Topics covered:

What Lee means by resilience
What are some common misconceptions people have about resilience?
How resilience can sometimes negatively impact employee well-being and mental health
How to get the balance right so you get fewer downsides
Top tips for leaders who want to help increase wellbeing

Connect with Dr Lee Williams here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thewellbeingchampion/

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