Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Written by a unique team of experts
Covers leadership, corporate culture, technology, wellness and workplace design
Answers the one problem everybody in every organization has every day
Synopsis
Chapter 1 Your People - Richard Savage& Michael Staunton
Chapter 2 Your Business - Alain Haut & Peter Thomson
Chapter3 Your Employer Brand - Michael Devlin & Anthony McAlister
Chapter 4 Leadership - Rudi Plettinx & Mike Johnson
Chapter 5 Culture - Luc de Jaeger & Ben Emmens
Chapter 6 Technological immaturity - Cliff Denett & Richard Smith
Chapter 7 Time management - Jim Ware & Susan Stucky
Chapter 8 Information management - Cliff Dennett & Susan Huskisson
Chapter 9 Alternative working patterns - Peter Thomson, Jim Ware & Larissa H misegger
Chapter 10 Employee engagement - Matthias M lleney & Sunnie Groeneveld
Chapter 11 Healthy working - Larissa H misegger & Andrew Chadwick
Part IV - Leadership in the digital age
Chapter 12 High performing organizations - Peter Thomson & Michael Staunton
Chapter 13 Changing the culture - Luc de Jaeger & Ben Emmens
Part V - Into the Future
Chapter 14 Creating the organisation of the future - Mike Johnson and Cliff Dennett
Synopsis
This book examines the impact of the digital deluge on employees and organizations and sets out the leadership actions needed to create a corporate culture fit for the digital age.
In the digital world executives are presented with exponentially more information than their predecessors were a generation ago - and yet we're not exponentially more productive. Why? Because we're using twenty-first century technology with a twentieth century mindset.
Excessive working hours, email overload and invasion of private life are all symptoms of a working culture that has used technology to simply amplify old management processes rather than enable and refine newer, more productive ones.
Instead of liberating us, technology has created a digital overload, accentuating the problems of presenteeism, unreasonable deadlines and management demands. Organizations need to stop using technology to turn up the volume and start using it to change the channel.
Written by a unique team of experts, this edited collection covers leadership, corporate culture, technology, wellness and workplace design. It argues that digital overload is a problem of corporate culture and a failure of leadership. As such it takes leadership to fix it. Leaders who have the courage to explore alternative ways of working with technology, the enlightenment to give employees more freedom and control over their own lives, and the humility to live and demonstrate the new culture personally. Those who do this have the power to transform their organizations so they can ride the digital wave rather than be swamped by it.