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The Future Workplace Experience: 10 Rules For Mastering Disruption in Recruiting and Engaging Employees
DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGIES. THE GIG ECONOMY. BREADWINNER MOMS. DATA-DRIVEN RECRUITING. PERSONALIZED LEARNING.
In a business landscape rocked by constant change and turmoil, companies like Airbnb, Cisco, GE Digital, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are reinventing the future of work. What is it that makes these companies so different? They’re strategic, they’re agile, and they’re customer-focused. But, most important, they’re game changers. And their workplace practices reflect this.
The Future Workplace Experience presents an actionable framework for meeting today’s toughest business disruptions head-on. It guides you step-by-step through the process of recruiting top employees and building an engaged culture―one that will drive your company to long-term success. Two of today’s leading voices on the future of work, provide 10 rules for rethinking, reimagining, and reinventing your organization,
Everything we took for granted in the past― from what we expect from our jobs to whom we work with and how―is changing before our eyes. The strongest organizations today are “learning machines.” New challenges require new solutions―and these organizations are finding them.
If you want to compete in the years to come, you have to meet the future now. The Future Workplace Experience is your playbook for taking your organization to the top of your industry.
In a business landscape rocked by constant change and turmoil, companies like Airbnb, Cisco, GE Digital, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are reinventing the future of work. What is it that makes these companies so different? They’re strategic, they’re agile, and they’re customer-focused. But, most important, they’re game changers. And their workplace practices reflect this.
The Future Workplace Experience presents an actionable framework for meeting today’s toughest business disruptions head-on. It guides you step-by-step through the process of recruiting top employees and building an engaged culture―one that will drive your company to long-term success. Two of today’s leading voices on the future of work, provide 10 rules for rethinking, reimagining, and reinventing your organization,
Everything we took for granted in the past― from what we expect from our jobs to whom we work with and how―is changing before our eyes. The strongest organizations today are “learning machines.” New challenges require new solutions―and these organizations are finding them.
If you want to compete in the years to come, you have to meet the future now. The Future Workplace Experience is your playbook for taking your organization to the top of your industry.
304 pages, Hardcover
First published November 2, 2016
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January 17, 2019
This is another of the books that I’ve picked up so that I can read them and then write spark notes style summaries of them for a client. As far as those books go, this has been one of the better ones, in part because of the way that the authors broke it down. The subtitle of the book is “10 rules for mastering disruption in recruiting and engaging employees”, and that’s exactly what this book will offer you.
The fact that it was broken up into these ten sections made it much easier for me to both take in the information and to refer back to it later, and while that’s not necessarily a marker of quality, it is a good sign. Honestly, I can’t really apply any of the lessons here myself because I’m self-employed, but I did think there were some pretty good ideas, and it was all backed up with data, too.
Of course, it was still a little dry, but I read a chapter or two at a time and that worked out pretty well for me. I also imagine you’d get a lot out of this if there’s an audio book version, although I haven’t checked. All in all, I was pleasantly surprised because I went in with fairly low expectations, and it turned out to be pretty good for what it was. I’m not sure who I’d recommend it to, though.
The fact that it was broken up into these ten sections made it much easier for me to both take in the information and to refer back to it later, and while that’s not necessarily a marker of quality, it is a good sign. Honestly, I can’t really apply any of the lessons here myself because I’m self-employed, but I did think there were some pretty good ideas, and it was all backed up with data, too.
Of course, it was still a little dry, but I read a chapter or two at a time and that worked out pretty well for me. I also imagine you’d get a lot out of this if there’s an audio book version, although I haven’t checked. All in all, I was pleasantly surprised because I went in with fairly low expectations, and it turned out to be pretty good for what it was. I’m not sure who I’d recommend it to, though.
August 16, 2017
Best business book I've read. Teaches how to structure a business for growth while making it a great place to work. A lesson on making companies human and protecting the most valuable asset, the employee. Business leaders across the board can benefit from even a glance of this book.
August 21, 2017
Very interesting look into the future workforce.
November 21, 2017
"A multifacted workforce offers a variety of perspectives that firms can leverage profitabilty to spur creative thinking and maxmize innovation."
February 14, 2017
Our workplaces are in a state of constant change, in part due to technology but also due to wider societal changes. Some of the changes or alleged benefits, such as the paperless office, have been promised for a long time but we are still waiting for this nirvana. As a child this reviewer recalls the future promises that we would be lost in a life of leisure as “the machines” do a lot of the work… we still waiting for that: the machines may be doing a lot of work but we don’t get to enjoy that leisure. Perhaps we are slaves to the machine and technology instead.
The authors of this book seeks to look forward and identify likely disruptions and changes to our future working environments, identifying what skills we should be harvesting today to meet the needs of the future. Aimed at senior management and their advisers, the authors aim to guide them to be ready for the challenges ahead and ensure that workers are armed with the skills that may be required.
Certainly it appears to be a sensible, reserved and arguably credible view of the future. No flying cars or knowledge implants are mentioned. A detailed evaluation and roadmap is provided to help companies evaluate, design and implement a plan for their future working environment, build around with flexibility to react to the changing world that they will encounter.
It is a worthy book to read, allowing you to examine how your company is operating today and consider what changes you may need to be operating in the future. Forecasting is an inexact science, of course, but if you build in sufficient flexibility within your operations to react to future changes you will be forewarned and forearmed.
The Future Workplace Experience, written by Jeanne C. Meister & Kevin Mulcahy and published by McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 9781259589386. YYYY
The authors of this book seeks to look forward and identify likely disruptions and changes to our future working environments, identifying what skills we should be harvesting today to meet the needs of the future. Aimed at senior management and their advisers, the authors aim to guide them to be ready for the challenges ahead and ensure that workers are armed with the skills that may be required.
Certainly it appears to be a sensible, reserved and arguably credible view of the future. No flying cars or knowledge implants are mentioned. A detailed evaluation and roadmap is provided to help companies evaluate, design and implement a plan for their future working environment, build around with flexibility to react to the changing world that they will encounter.
It is a worthy book to read, allowing you to examine how your company is operating today and consider what changes you may need to be operating in the future. Forecasting is an inexact science, of course, but if you build in sufficient flexibility within your operations to react to future changes you will be forewarned and forearmed.
The Future Workplace Experience, written by Jeanne C. Meister & Kevin Mulcahy and published by McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 9781259589386. YYYY
November 25, 2016
I've loved that book! As an HR professional going through a shift from traditional HR to Employee Experience, it inspired me and gave me a lot of ideas!
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