Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team

In this ＂deeply empowering and practical book＂(Cecilia Muñoz), two technology and innovation leaders reveal dozens of tactics that enabled them to accomplish seemingly impossible reforms in organizations of all types and sizes.

Whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo association bylaws, it’s time to it’s time to learn how to get big things done and make a lasting impact with Hack Your Bureaucracy.

From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies--and won. Now, they bring their years of experience to you, teaching you strategies anyone can use to improve your organization through their own stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hackers, including:

• Find Your Paperclip: use small steps to achieve big change
• Set Your North Star: keep your end goal in sight
• Cultivate the Karass: assemble an adept team and network
• Don’t Waste a Crisis: turn every opportunity into a chance for change
• And more!

Change doesn’t happen just because the person in charge declares it should, even if that person is the CEO of your company or the President of the United States. Regardless of your industry, role, or team, Hack Your Bureaucracy shows how to get started, take initiative on your own, and transform your ideas into impact.

Marina Nitze is a Public Interest Technology fellow at New America. She was most recently the chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, where she built the first agency digital service team, bringing in top technical talent for tours of duty within the agency to help transform how the United States serves and honors its veterans. She was formerly senior advisor to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Todd Park and also the first entrepreneur-in-residence at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to government, she ran the business process re-engineering firm the Type-A Way and wrote the book Business Efficiency for Dummies. She lives in Seattle, WA.

Nick Sinai is a Senior Advisor at Insight Partners. Nick works with existing portfolio companies in the data and software sectors, and identifies new opportunities for investment in these sectors. Nick also advises portfolio companies on policy, regulatory, and government markets. Nick is currently a board member at BrightBytes and worked closely with Virgin Pulse. She lives in Westwood, MA.