Bestselling author’s blueprint for attracting and engaging top talent to beat the competition in today’s ever-evolving business environment
Bestselling author of The 2020 Workplace Jeanne Meister returns with a powerful guide to mastering a new set of workplace disruptions, detailing the skills you need to thrive in today’s hyper-competitive and rapidly changing business environment. Along with co-author Kevin Mulcahy, Meister presents step-by-step advice to recruiters on how to prepare for a more transparent world of work, develop a new set of leadership skills, and anticipate future trends and changes across industries.
"The Future Workplace Experience" redefines most of the conventional wisdom about work, employees, human resources practices, the very nature of a job itself, and so much more.
Meister & Mulcahy describe how the workplace is changing and profile the new practices organizations are implementing. The authors organize these practices into three areas; what workers expect from work, how technology impacts the workplace, and the changing composition of the workforce.
Most importantly, they synthesize these practices into ten rules your organization can use to re-think and re-imagine the future workplace.
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.
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.
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
La generación actual que trabaja en grandes corporaciones (nosotros) ha sido la generación que más cambios ha tenido en toda la Historia, y la generación que más ha tenido que aprender. El ritmo y la velocidad de las industrias es cada vez más rápido, menos predecible, con más retos y más exigente. Este libro explica con muy buenos ejemplos de empresas reales, ¿cómo las grandes corporaciones han aprovechado la tecnología para adaptarse a estos cambios?, ¿qué ya no funciona y ya no debemos hacer?, ¿qué esperan los empleados de las empresas?, ¿cómo serán los trabajos en 5 años? una muy buena manera de reflejar la experiencia laboral del "futuro" que ya es hoy y que hay que comprender y aplicar para no "morir": Innovate or die.
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!