Embracing Progress: Next Steps For The Future Of Work

by A. Sophie Wade

ENGAGEMENT, PERSONALIZATION, INTEGRATION AND CHOICE. These four Priorities are core themes for any Future-of-Work transformation. Embrace them as you take the next steps to achieve a future-proofed, talent-focused, and progressive working environment.

PROGRESS is at the heart of the American Dream and the significant ongoing workforce and workplace changes. Technological advances are enabling new ways of working that are long overdue―responding to decades of societal evolution and new understanding about what actually engages workers and increases productivity.

Sophie Wade is an authority on the Future of Work, and in Embracing Progress she shares her expertise and insights to explain the current and project work environment. She outlines how you can take the new steps to transform your company successfully, applying first principles to develop your unique plan for progress. You will learn about the four Priorities and six Pillars to focus on and evolve and how to achieve as smooth a transition as possible.

Embracing Progress will give you the tools you need to develop and execute a viable strategic plan to tackle ongoing workplace changes, allowing your company to flourish in the years ahead.

“The way we work is going through a profound transformation. With Embracing Progress, Sophie Wade provides an essential guide for businesses of all sizes to create a more flexible, empathetic, purpose-driven, and human workplace that can meet the challenges and embrace the opportunities of this new era.”
―ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, founder and CEO, Thrive Global
“Sophie Wade brings a thoughtful and refreshing perspective to the critical topic of the Future of Work. She has spent much time and energy assessing how we can achieve better performance, engagement, and career satisfaction in the workplace. Embracing Progress is full of good ideas that can help us all think more creatively about how we work. It couldn’t come at a more important time.”
―MATT BREITFELDER, Chief Talent Officer, BlackRock
“Sophie Wade brings to readers fresh ideas and terrific strategies aimed at helping them to succeed in today’s and tomorrow’s dynamic work environment, with experience from her own career that has been latticed and diverse.”
―Julie Silver, MD, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Strategic Initiatives, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School |Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
"Sophie Wade tackles the Future of Work with a compelling big-picture vision and a smart understanding of its details. Her path of learning, questioning, and refining ideas delivers real-world approaches employers can use to help employees perform at their best. Whether dealing with the emerging understanding of creativity, the power of purpose, or the relationship between individuals and groups, Sophie understands the desire for fully-coherent workplaces that best empower the workforce of today and tomorrow.”
--Greg Parsons, Senior Vice President and Creative Director, Work, Herman Miller, Inc
Sophie Wade has been deeply immersed in the Future of Work for several years, starting with her focus on workplace flexibility. She shares many brilliant insights about the changing demands of the workforce and explains how the workplace is being radically altered forever. Her approach is organic, continually absorbing and developing new perspectives illuminating the evolution of the Future of Work. The applications are so helpful supporting companies’ adaptions to this very new way of working.
You can’t go forward without it!
--Faith Popcorn, CEO Faith Popcorn’s BrainReserve

276 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 30, 2017

Reviews

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

The content of this book should be required content in modern courses of business management. The nature of work is changing in many ways, from the demise of the traditional lifetime employment doing the same general tasks and retiring with a pension to the dramatic rise of automation that vaporizes certain categories of jobs. The pace of technical change is also significant, so many people that do the same job for ten years are doing it in a vastly different way in year ten from the way they did it in year one.
Many modern workers also have altered expectations, they will gladly surrender the old repetitive action jobs with security for the challenge of learning new ways and being given the opportunity to learn new things. Many of them recognize that this is the way it is now and are frustrated to the point of departure when the company they work for does not understand this.
For many of the workers, it is important that the company they work for have a social policy that they agree with. This is reflected in the activism of many heads of modern companies, where they have been at the forefront of modern social movements such as same-sex marriage. Where they can, the workers will agitate for social justice within the company and depart if they feel that the organization is not aligned with their views on how society should function.
Finally, there is a growing emphasis on the realization that the rule of thumb known as the 80-20 rule, where 80 percent of productivity is accounted for by 20 percent of the labor force is not necessarily valid. If a company does what is necessary to keep all their workers mentally engaged and their skill sets current, then the 80 percent figure will remain constant while the 20 percent figure goes up, leading to an overall increase in productivity.
There are many general aspects of the concept of work that are changing, and doing so quickly. Wade examines many of them, explaining what is happening and several ways to go with the flow while simultaneously altering it. This is a great book to rattle the collective managerial mindset.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

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