Adopting new ways of working can come with a lot of excitement and buzz. It’s thrilling to move from having nothing to having something to having something that really sings. Then different questions pop up: How do you sustain the new-ways-of-working spark over time? What ingredients does a system need to avoid slouching toward staleness and mediocrity? What practices might you be propping up past their prime?

It’s easy to default to complacency—to accept that what’s working is good enough. But if you want an organization that’s always leveling up, always evolving its work to feel more joyful and energized, and always sensing into the next thing, it starts with asking these questions.

In this episode of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan and Rodney Evans talk about how to stay in pursuit of what’s possible, and stay excited along the way.

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