The Remarkable Leadership Podcast · The Kevin Eikenberry Group

Removing Organizational Roadblocks with Don Kieffer and Nelson Repenning

·38 min·3 clips
Nelson Repenning explains why budgets are often obsolete within months, forcing teams to work around them secretly.
Kevin Eikenberry hosts Nelson Repenning and Don Kieffer to discuss their book on overcoming organizational roadblocks. They explore dynamic work design, the firefighting trap, silos, and the importance of problem formulation in management, using examples from Harley-Davidson and MIT.

As heard by us

A clear look at how process problems turn ordinary work into a chain of delays.

Don Kieffer and Nelson Repenning treat a familiar work complaint as a process problem, tracing how roadblocks, handoffs, and workarounds can make simple tasks harder than they should be.

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Why you'd press play

When the same bottleneck keeps coming back under a new name.

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