The Future of Work: Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive OrganizationThroughout 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:
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Contents
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Todays Employee | 21 |
Seven Principles of the Future Employee | 31 |
The Freelancer Economy | 69 |
Todays Manager | 77 |
Ten Principles of the Future Manager | 91 |
The Managerless Company | 119 |
The Organization of Today | 137 |
Fourteen Principles of the Future Organization | 145 |
Technology as the Central Nervous System | 193 |
How to Become the Future Organization and Stay That Way | 203 |
Rethinking Work | 213 |
Notes | 217 |
The FOW Community dedicated to the future of work and collaboration Index 223 | 223 |