Synopses & Reviews
The workplace is drastically changing. Managers have more direct reports than before the recession, Millennials will soon out number all other generations at work, businesses have the new technology and tools to boost performance, cut costs, and give employees more freedom over their own projects, and of course, our ability to work from anyplace, at any time.
In order for businesses to succeed in this new environment, employees, managers, and organizations as a whole need to redefine what it means to work.
The Future of Work explores the new behaviors, new technologies, and the new people entering the workforce, focusing on:
- How the traditional command and control leadership model is dead
- Working with and for Millennials, who expect to be doing meaningful work, share their voice, and want rapid feedback
- How to adapt to the mobile worker
- How to succeed when the corporate ladder is replaced by employees creating their own way
- Why the future of work is about sharing information and not hoarding it
- How new technologies are reshaping the way we communicate by forcing an open environment of collaboration among all levels
The Future of Work is about what we can do to reach our bottom line while empowering our employees across the board, creating not only profitable businesses and meaningful work, but an environment to attract and keep the best talent.
Synopsis
Throughout the history of business employees had to adapt to managers and managers had to adapt to organizations. In the future this is reversed with managers and organizations adapting to employees. This means that in order to succeed and thrive organizations must rethink and challenge everything they know about work.
The demographics of employees are changing and so are employee expectations, values, attitudes, and styles of working. Conventional management models must be replaced with leadership approaches adapted to the future employee. Organizations must also rethink their traditional structure, how they empower employees, and what they need to do to remain competitive in a rapidly changing world.
This is a book about how employees of the future will work, how managers will lead, and what organizations of the future will look like.
The Future of Work will help you:
- Stay ahead of the competition
- Create better leaders
- Tap into the freelancer economy
- Attract and retain top talent
- Rethink management
- Structure effective teams
- Embrace flexible work environments
- Adapt to the changing workforce
- Build the organization of the future
- And more
The book features uncommon examples and easy to understand concepts which will challenge and inspire you to work differently.