Jobshift: How To Prosper In A Workplace Without Jobs

by William Bridges

Describing recent trends in layoffs, restructuring, and temporary labor, the author of Managing Transitions states that the steady job is out of sync with companies of the future, and shows how workers can thrive in the coming business world. Tour.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help

257 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1994

About the author

William Bridges is an internationally known speaker, author, and consultant who advises individuals and organizations in how to deal productively with change.

Educated originally in the humanities at Harvard, Columbia, and Brown Universities, he was (until his own career change in 1974) a professor of American Literature at Mills College, Oakland, CA. He is a past president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. The Wall Street Journal listed him as one of the top ten independent executive development presenters in America.

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Reviews

[Gerry · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gig economy rules!

[Ruang Baca · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sangat menarik banget buku ini. Ramalan terhadap pekerjaan yang pas realita dihadapi masa sekarang.

[Susan Steed · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up when my old office was chucking books out. It was published in 1995 and is about the end of the job as a concept. As this is something I have thought about quite a lot I thought it would be really outdated but it's surprising how still far ahead of his time this book looks. It's particularly painful to read his critique of government sponsored job-training or retraining programes being outdated as these things still exist today. He also argues for benefits to be de-jobbed, not just shifting from unemployment benefits to income supplements (as most people won't have jobs) and also to the importance of decoupling pensions and healthcare from employment.

I didn't read many of the self help bits and only browsed it but this book strikes interesting balance as he isn't saying the end of the job is desirable or will be easy/great and goes into a lot of the psychological elements of it. I also found his comparisons with the arguments made about the rise of the job (taking away traditional village life, status, etc.) 200 years ago with the arguments being made today as we get rid of the job today.

[Edward O'Neill · Rating 3 out of 5]

A former English professor who's now a career consultant tells you how to move from one career to another--although if you ask me, he rather got hung up in the process.

Bridges paints a picture of a universe in which no one owes anyone a job, and every individual must see herself as a hired gun for whatever tiny duration the employer wishes.

You are an x-shaped peg, and if you don't find an x-shaped hole, you will be shit-outa-luck.

Bridges encourages you to grasp this harsh reality in kinder gentler terms.

Bracing and gentle at the same time.

[Geoffrey Graham · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books I've ever read on the subject matter ,that
effect us all so much. Employment.

This book really opened my eyes to my own potential and also the ways
of seeing myself.

I would of never thought of seeing myself as a co-operation CEO of my own company.

Although the path that is set out in the book is not the right path for everyone who is looking for employment. It should be a book that every entrepreneur should read.

[JoAnn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aimed at the individual, this book offers a useful way to look at understanding your talents, marketing yourself, and living out the adage that “Job security is between your ears.” Takes the standpoint that as society increasingly “outsources” jobs and functions, the individual must adopt the perspective that he/she is in “business” for himself or herself.

[Barry Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Extraordinary book on the change in employment from jobs to work. Shows how we are presently in the transition away from the Industrial Age to work that is more process-oriented. Excellent chapters on the end of the good job, the new marketplace and the psychological effects of “de-jobbing.” Includes some solid advice on self-promotion as a contract worker in the new workplace.