A researcher studying what blocks people from doing good work identifies four sources of organizational obstacles: bureaucracy, outdated practices, broken infrastructure, and people problems. He calls this the B-dip framework and asks you to spot which ones are slowing your workplace down.
So, when I started researching the book, the question was, what gets in the way of people doing their best work? And as you can imagine, I found a lot of information. And I needed a term, I needed a word. And the word that kept sticking out to me was muck, like sludge, like mud, these things that when you try and walk through it, literally slows you down. So, my question to people is, what the muck? What are the sources of muck in your organization? And I've got 4 categories. Of muck, bureaucracy, dinosaurs, infrastructure, and people. And by the way, I call that the the B dip. I was thinking about Michael Jackson. Boom ba ba ba boom. So B dip, bureaucracy, dinosaurs, infrastructure, and people.
