Nick Sinai

Author

2022 - Current

Co-Author of Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team. Whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo association bylaws, it’s time to learn how to get big things done and make a lasting impact with Hack Your Bureaucracy. From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies—and won. Now, they bring their years of experience to you, teaching you strategies anyone can use to improve your organization through their own stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hackers, including: => Find Your Paperclip: use small steps to achieve big change => Set Your North Star: keep your end goal in sight => Cultivate the Karass: assemble an adept team and network => Don’t Waste a Crisis: turn every opportunity into a chance for change The book contains over 50 tactics, each with real-world examples, for making lasting change in bureaucracies from PTAs and HOAs all the way up to the White House and Fortune 500 companies. Change doesn’t happen just because the person in charge declares it should, even if that person is the CEO of your company or the President of the United States. Regardless of your industry, role, or team, Hack Your Bureaucracy shows how to get started, take initiative on your own, and transform your ideas into impact.

Senior Advisor

2014

Adjunct Faculty

2015

U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer

2011 - 2014

Energy and Environment Director

2009 - 2010

Vice President

2008 - 2009

Senior Associate

2004 - 2007

Manager

1998 - 2002

White House Intern

1997 - 1997

Research Assistant

1996 - 1997