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

Need better results quickly? But is your organization holding you back from achieving them?

This book is for leaders who need to achieve drastically 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 you learned at your MBA 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 culture where people happily take ownership and can do what is right for business.
• 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: Leading 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 to do instead of a top-down reorgs or structure change.
• How to move from artificial harmony to constructive disagreement.
• How to reduce meetings across the organization.
• How to develop a culture that provides autonomy to your talent and creates results through alignment.
• How to develop an organization based on 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 stand-alone, 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 it looks like when unblocked that you can use to self-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 like 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 consistently helped his clients accelerate results.

What others said about the book:

"This book is highly relevant. I enjoyed its no-nonsense style, recognizable real-life cases (that often made me ‘cringe'), and the practical tips that bring the solutions home in an elegant way.” - Barbara Arnst, VP Agility & Transformation, Telenet

“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

“Most books you read contain the theory, but few link it with practical, actionable examples. This one does, impactful and authentic, easy to digest. Will be the book for the team.” - Anders Ohrling, CIO Europe, Electrolux

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 get more done than you ever thought was possible.

About early digital access

The book will be in print in September 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.