How to Apply Basic Work Design Principles for Organizational Success Featuring Thomas Bertels

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Thomas Bertels is a management consultant and business transformation expert on a mission to make work more productive, valuable, meaningful, and impactful. He has more than 25 years of experience helping companies across a range of industries, from startups to Fortune 5, transform how work gets done. Thinkers360 has recognized Thomas as a Top 50 Thought Leader on the Future of Work and Design Thinking.

Before starting Purpose Works in 2021, Thomas was a founding partner at OXYGY/Valeocon. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles at Aon Consulting and ABB.

Thomas has written several books and numerous articles on work design, process improvement, business transformation, and organizational learning. His latest book is Fixing Work: Designing Jobs Employees Love (Greenleaf Book Group). He is also the host of the Work Matters podcast, where he explores in conversations with thought leaders and executives what leaders can do to fix work.

Thomas and I discuss:

Thomas’s motivation for writing his latest book
Why Thomas chose to write a business fable
The process of writing an allegory
Differences between writing an allegory and a traditional business book
The impact Thomas hopes his book will have
The connection between the book and Thomas’s business
Challenges Thomas foresees for thought leaders today
What successful consultants do differently
How Thomas would start his consulting business today
Basic principles of the work design framework
The role of community in achieving professional success

Learn more about Thomas Bertels at:

Homepage www.purpose.works
Book Site www.fixing-work.com
Newsletter purposeworks.substack.com
Diagnostic www.mymojo.works
Podcast https://www.youtube.com/@WorkMatterspodcast
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasbertels/, https://www.linkedin.com/company/purpose-works-consulting

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