Morgan The Future of Work

Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-87725-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten, E-Book

Throughout the history of business employees had to adapt tomanagers and managers had to adapt to organizations. In the futurethis is reversed with managers and organizations adapting toemployees. This means that in order to succeed and thriveorganizations must rethink and challenge everything they know aboutwork.
The demographics of employees are changing and so are employeeexpectations, values, attitudes, and styles of working. Conventional management models must be replaced withleadership approaches adapted to the future employee. Organizationsmust also rethink their traditional structure, how they empoweremployees, and what they need to do to remain competitive in arapidly changing world.
This is a book about how employees of the future will work, howmanagers will lead, and what organizations of the future will looklike.
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 conceptswhich will challenge and inspire you to work differently.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morgan, Jacob

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Rethinking Chess and Work xi
1 The Five Trends Shaping the World of Work 1
2 The Cog: Today's Employee 21
3 Seven Principles of the Future Employee 31
4 The Freelancer Economy 69
5 The Zookeeper: Today's Manager 77
6 Ten Principles of the Future Manager 91
7 The Managerless Company 119
8 The Organization of Today 137
9 Fourteen Principles of the Future Organization 145
10 Technology as the Central Nervous System 193
11 The Six-Step Process for Adapting to the Future of Work: Howto Become the Future Organization (and Stay That Way!) 203
12 Rethinking Work 213
Notes 217
The FOW Community (dedicated to the future of work andcollaboration) 223
Index 225

Über Autor(innen)

Jacob Morgan is a futurist and globally recognizedthought leader on the future of work and collaboration. He is theprincipal and co-founder of Chess Media Group, a managementconsulting and strategic advisory firm that focuses on the futureof work and collaboration. Jacob has worked with companies such asSafeway, Sodexo, Siemens, Lowe's Home Improvement, FranklinTempleton Investments, and many others. Jacob is frequently citedin media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN,Fast Company, Inc Magazine, and others. He is the author of thebest-selling, The Collaborative Organization, and has a column forForbes. Jacob speaks at conferences and events around the world. Towork with Jacob or inquire about speaking engagements you can emailJacob directly; [e-mail] or connect with Jacob onTwitter @JacobM. Learn more about Jacob by visitingTheFutureOrganization.com.