At Work with The Ready

Brave New Work 91. Overcoming Excuses: How to Stop Stalling and Start by Starting


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We dedicate this episode to our favorite…excuses. That’s right, we’re cracking open the archive of reasons people frequently cite for avoiding or stalling new ways of working. Odds are you also know (or have yourself played) the top hits by heart—hits like “We just need buy-in from every stakeholder first” and “Let’s wait for the new COO to start,” and the classic of all classics, “If only we hadn’t just started a reorg…” It’s not that these different forms and flavors of resistance don’t resonate; it’s just that they’re all evidence of an already-dysfunctional OS—which (spoiler alert) yet another reorg won’t fix.


In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans teach us how to stop making excuses because if you want to fundamentally transform the way your organization works, there’s only one way to start: By starting.


Mentioned references:

  • "turtles all the way down"
  • continuous participatory change: BNW Ep. 43
  • "OS": The Ready's OS Canvas
  • "Greg and essentialism": BNW Ep. 90 with Greg McKeown
  • Conscious Leadership Group

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