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Marina Nitze

Marina Nitze, co-author of Crisis Engineering and Hack Your Bureaucracy, is currently a partner at Layer Aleph, a crisis engineering firm that specializes in restoring complex business systems to service. Marina was most recently the Chief Technology Officer of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs under President Obama, after serving as a Senior Advisor on technology in the Obama White House and as the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the U.S. Department of Education. She serves on the board of Renaissance Philanthropy and advisory boards of the Center for Civic Futures, Foster America, Foster Insights, Recoding America, and Think of Us. Marina created TaskTackler, the personal productivity app for people who love lists, and lives in Seattle, Washington.

BOOK EXCERPT: The Crisis Worth Using

  • Crisis, Crisis Management, Decision-making, Leadership, Strategy

Discover how the right framework can turn organizational chaos into an opportunity for lasting change.

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BOOK EXCERPT: The Crisis Worth Using
  • The excerpt introduces crisis engineering: the practice of directing organizational crises toward lasting, positive change, arguing that crises are mismanaged rather than inherently destructive, and offering a five-indicator framework to help leaders recognize a genuine crisis and seize the rare window it creates for rapid transformation.
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