Unblock: Clear the Way for Results and Develop a Thriving Organization

Need better results quickly? But does everything feel like swimming through peanut butter? It is time to Unblock your organization.

This book is for leaders who need to achieve dramatically better outcomes quickly.  For example, you may want to double the company’s market share, bring an innovative product to market, implement regulations, or reinvent the core business. 

To achieve your goals, you need people to take ownership. You need less talking, more action, less analysis and faster decisions, less bureaucracy, and more initiative — you need to unblock your organization.

But most of the traditional management methods don’t help you get rid of inertia. This book offers new methods that allow you to stop working harder, take a step back, and change the system.

Learn to apply modern organizational methods in areas of:

• Strategy: Craft a strategy that actually creates alignment and focus at scale.
• Steering: Set effective goals and find the right things to measure.
• Decisions: Improve the speed of decision-making at every level, with more quality and inclusion.
• Ownership: Develop a workplace where people happily take ownership and can do what is right for the organization.
• Teamwork: Develop psychologically safe teams that master reflection, improvement, and feedback.
• Meetings: Get rid of useless meetings and replace them with engaging ones that drive work forward.
• Change Management: Lead long-lasting cultural change efforts that won't fail like most others.

There are a lot of great books out there on developing an effective organization—theoretical ones, idea books, case studies, and many others. But what is different about this book is that it is pragmatic and practical. 

The book is full of leadership advice, such as:

• How to prioritize so you don’t spread your initiatives too thin.
• Why you shouldn’t cascade your strategy and what to do instead.
• How to measure the right things so you know you’re making progress.
• How to move from analysis paralysis to rapid action and learning.
• How to coach others to take more ownership.
• What works better than top-down reorganizations or structure change.
• How to move from artificial harmony to constructive disagreement.
• How to reduce meetings across the organization.
• How to develop an organization that creates results through autonomy and alignment.

“Unblock” provides new solutions to your stickiest problems, practical tips to overcome organizational dysfunction, and helps you execute strategy and achieve a lasting impact.

Stop the nonsense that is holding your organization back and unlock the potential that is already there. Develop a high-performing organization that delivers results and is fulfilling for the people who work there. 

What you can expect:

• The chapters can be read standalone, so you can jump directly to what feels most relevant to your situation and skip everything else.
• Each chapter starts with an entertaining fictional story to illustrate what it looks like when blocked.
• Most chapters can be read in 15 minutes or less.
• Every chapter ends with a checklist describing what an organization looks like when it’s unblocked; you can use this to assess your situation.
• The book covers essential theory but is full of step-by-step exercises.

Why the author is a relevant source of advice:

Jurriaan Kamer is a speaker and consultant. In his 20 years of experience, he has advised hundreds of leaders across the world on overcoming organizational barriers to achieve better outcomes.

Over the years, he has experimented with methods such as Lean, Agile, self-management, Holacracy, and OKRs and found inspiration in all of them. In this book, he has curated the practices across those methods that have consistently helped his clients accelerate their results.

What others said about the book:

“As an executive, I'm often searching for tools that help me and my team realize our vision. This book is a great resource. It provides valuable insights and practical guidance for leaders seeking to unblock organizations and produce breakthroughs. Having worked closely with the author, I can attest to the effectiveness of the strategies and advice presented.” - Eva McLellan, General Manager and Country President, Roche Pharmaceutical

“I love the many anecdotes/stories as they bring past experiences to life. This book provides many great lessons. It is well-written, and I never got bored.”- Mike O'Riordan, SVP EMEA and APAC at Ingredion

“This book takes deep organizational experience to impactful practices; it unblocks energy through aligned autonomy. The bad news is: there is no more excuse for not experimenting with these drills.” - Carsten Stolz, CFO at Baloise

“I enjoyed the book a lot – it is easy to read and comprehend. The stories are lively and provide great examples to understand practices described.” - Julia Hautz, Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Innsbruck

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to move the needle with effective strategy, faster decisions, strong teams, and more ownership. Get your copy of 'Unblock' today and achieve more than you ever thought was possible.

About early digital access

The book will be in print in October of 2024. The manuscript is not yet finished as several leaders are beta-reading it, shaping the book's course. However, I believe it is good enough for early access. As Ried Hoffman said, "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late."

By buying this package, you will receive the beta version of the manuscript now in PDF, and in the future, you will receive all updates and digital editions (PDF, Mobi, ePub, and Audiobook), when they are ready.