Miller - Change Your Space, Change Your Culture

We're leaving behind a complicated world that operated like a machine, to a much more complex world that operates more like an ecosystem, he states, in a nutshell, the big idea behind workplaces that work in a hyperconnected world.

Susan S. Szenasy
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

Change Your Space clearly articulates the power of technology as an influential business tool inside the workspace. It illustrates the importance of helping employees connect and collaborate to improve their productivity. Technology is rapidly evolving, affecting the way people think and work in their office environment. The key points that Mr. Miller and his coauthors present are among the leading concepts for the future of the workplace.

Lew Horne
President of CBRE, Greater Los AngelesOrange County

This book is an excellent treatise on a topic that has been long underserved. Every CEO should be personally involved in the design of the work environment, and this is the book to read if you want to understand why that's important, what you should care about and how to proceed.

Dave Gray
author of The Connected Company

Change Your Space will transform the way you think about workspace. An insipid workspace is worse than a lost opportunity; it is a lodestone in a world where companies must innovate to survive. This book offers actionable insights and real world examples to demonstrate how and why your workspace is critical for forming, shaping, and retaining the sort of team and culture required for success. I found it so compelling that I'm planning to incorporate the book into my Building Innovation Teams and Cultures MBA course at Kellogg.

Joe Dwyer
Partner at Founder Equity and Digital Intent; and teacher of innovation at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management

Miller and his fellow research team are great investigative reporters. The goal of their investigation is to find out why 70 percent of today's workforce feel disengaged and why we are locked in an antiquated industrial era culture that has little to do with today's increasingly highly networked, team-based, and transparent reality. The authors' modus operandi for accomplishing this task is to study more than 20 companies that have achieved a degree of innovation, collaboration, engagement, agility, and sustainability. Although there is no single road map for achieving this new culture, the book provides numerous insights into creating an innovative culture that reflects the emerging nature of work and the workplace.

Eric Teicholz
IFMA Fellow, Director, Board of Directors

Change Your Space is a profound book that any leader interested in employee engagement and innovation should read. Given my career in commercial real estate, it was refreshing to see a research-based analysis of how to use office space as a catalyst for improving a company's culture. Our industry has been very slow to adapt and change, but I believe that is about to change. Change Your Space makes it clear that every company can improve their work place environments and achieve stunning results. Any company that does not change will increasingly be left behind in the ever more competitive race to attract and retain talent.

Richard Kincaid
former President and Chief Executive Officer of Equity Office Properties Trust

Everything has or is changing: phones, computers, TVs, cars, music, communication. Office space has not changed for many decades and needs to be rethought for a new age. Change Your Space leads the way in reimagining why and how our offices need to change.

Pat Sullivan
cofounder of ACT! Software and CEO of Contata

Having taken a small startup venture to a NYSE listed company in five years, we faced constant change in applying our disruptive methods to a legacy industry. This book gets at the underlying connections of behavior, culture, and workplace and their impact on execution in the face of broad changes now happening across the economy.

Doug Brien and Gary Beasley
Co-CEOs, Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust.

Change Your Space uncovers the next dimension of the triple bottom linewhere success is inherently rooted in a culture of rich engagement in the workplace. While this requires a somewhat complex formula, the brain trust behind this book has outlined a very clear business case for environments that foster collaboration and innovation. As society continues to evolve at lightning speed, healthy, vibrant work environments are within reachthanks to this forward-thinking, thought-provoking, must-read book.

Barbie Wentworth
President and CEO of MB Advertising

As a two-time CEO of dynamic, fast-growth, tech companies I never underestimated the importance of physical space in energizing the people and driving culture; Rex's team gets it. This book is a must-read for leaders who want to compete in the new business climate and get their employees out of cubicle purgatory.

Bob Vanech
founding Board Member of the 2020 Los Angeles World's Fair

I am a proponent of matching the workplace to the culture to sustain innovation and creativity. Hill & Wilkinson has created a new position for a Culture Manager to assure that our corporate actions align with our culture. Case4Space is right on target with their thoughts about the importance of culture.

Greg Wilkinson
Co-Chairman of Hill & Wilkinson

Rex Miller and his collaborators have created an important book that has the boldness to propose that workspace can be used as an agent of change. Change Your Space, Change Your Culture is a thought-provoking publication that should be read by not just designers and architects, but anyone involved in leading organizations.

Michael Schley
CEO and Founder, FM:Systems, Chair, Workplace Strategy Summit

As business leaders we have the unique opportunity and duty to positively affect today's working culture. It is literally changing before our eyes. Change Your Space provides live examples and a road map for transforming static culture and becoming the innovative organizations our people will love to work in.

Patrick Sean Kelley
Chief Creative Officer MARTZPARSONS

This is a fascinating exploration of the multiple ways our work environments are hindering or helping us get things done. Rex Miller has done a remarkable job of chronicling the significant changes afoot in our culture and their impact on consciousnessa terrific treaty on the power that form has on function.

David Allen
author of Getting Things Done

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Copyright 2014 by Rex Miller, Mabel Casey, and Mark Konchar. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

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