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#FutureOfWork: Resilient Growth Principles
In this urgent, transformative and relevant book, Prashant sets out multiple viewpoints, their span spectrum and extremely important ideas for how the future of work will emerge and evolve to create and capture your effort's value, amplify authenticity and maximise your gains for years to come.
Prashant has spent years investigating and learning the cause and effect of technology on strategy, culture, and people, across continents. Based on his learning experience of working with hundreds of clients, cultures and industries across 40+ countries, he has shared salient ideas of what must be done in order to build your organisation's and your #FutureOfWork i.e. FOW.
He has shared his precious ideas in five parts in this book. Each of five parts have been further elaborated as chapters. Each chapter is a scale of "From" and "To". You will find that you will be at a different point on that scale compared to others, it's fine. " Words of Wisdom " at the end of each chapter are ideas that will make a difference in your life, when internalised.
In the first part, he articulates a crystal clear description of " challenges " that individuals, teams and organisations face today. In the second part, keeping "empathy" at the center, he focuses on " feelings " of people and groups. Often, "feelings" are missed out, but are the MOST important part of the future of work. In the third part, building on his ideas of innovation of time and space, " structure " of the future of work is explained. Once you build self-awareness after these learnings, the fourth part is the solution, " tools ". Tools that are available to reduce time, increase quality and reduce your cost of solving problems. Finally, he lays out strategies , to build your purpose for the future of work. He shares ideas not for defining the purpose of the employer, but employees, interns and future employees too. Remember, purpose is more powerful than power itself.
As Prashant makes clear, where we live, where we work and where we earn is disjoint, disconnected and disrupted. Building Future of work will not be simple and easy to do, but if you follow the ideas that he shares here, it is a goal certainly within your reach.
Prashant has spent years investigating and learning the cause and effect of technology on strategy, culture, and people, across continents. Based on his learning experience of working with hundreds of clients, cultures and industries across 40+ countries, he has shared salient ideas of what must be done in order to build your organisation's and your #FutureOfWork i.e. FOW.
He has shared his precious ideas in five parts in this book. Each of five parts have been further elaborated as chapters. Each chapter is a scale of "From" and "To". You will find that you will be at a different point on that scale compared to others, it's fine. " Words of Wisdom " at the end of each chapter are ideas that will make a difference in your life, when internalised.
In the first part, he articulates a crystal clear description of " challenges " that individuals, teams and organisations face today. In the second part, keeping "empathy" at the center, he focuses on " feelings " of people and groups. Often, "feelings" are missed out, but are the MOST important part of the future of work. In the third part, building on his ideas of innovation of time and space, " structure " of the future of work is explained. Once you build self-awareness after these learnings, the fourth part is the solution, " tools ". Tools that are available to reduce time, increase quality and reduce your cost of solving problems. Finally, he lays out strategies , to build your purpose for the future of work. He shares ideas not for defining the purpose of the employer, but employees, interns and future employees too. Remember, purpose is more powerful than power itself.
As Prashant makes clear, where we live, where we work and where we earn is disjoint, disconnected and disrupted. Building Future of work will not be simple and easy to do, but if you follow the ideas that he shares here, it is a goal certainly within your reach.
146 pages, Hardcover
Published August 30, 2021
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May 4, 2022
Disclaimer: I ve known Prashant for over 7 years and have worked closely on many projects. Biases are natural but I will try to keep this article as objective as possible.
Context for the book - With 2 years of Covid-19 behind us we are now living in a world very different from what used to be a year ago. Large events such as conferences are being scheduled, people have started traveling for work and leisure, employers are open to people working from office. Government, employers and society are equipped with sufficient training, knowledge and tools to deal with another variant of the virus and everyone is expected to be act responsibly and stay vigilant.
Future of Work - How work getting done post pandemic is about creating an environment that is flexible, adaptive, responsible and inclusive which to me is what book aims to highlight as ‘Future of Work’.
What the book is - Change is inevitable and the book talks about ~30+ such change ideas that will influence Future of Work. All of them may not be applicable to you but some of them maybe highly relevant. The book is not about prescriptions or how to guidelines. The considerations listed are ideas you may chew on to see whether it helps you improve your organizational work culture.
It discusses about how physical products are going to be conceived and tested first virtually before being prototyped. Every product will need to offer some sort of online experience replicating the “touch and feel” as people’s attention and energy are online. Often times, the internet is the only place they go for product discovery. The book also refers to ‘persuasive technology’ from BJ Fogg which talks about influencing user behavior by proactively leading them to outcomes you want than being reactive. While this has been used for decades at facebook, google or amazon, traditional businesses have an opportunity to do so in their organization with the current tools available. The concept of super-humans is mentioned that talks about a case where instead of humans just instructing machines to do routine tasks via automation, a hybrid avatar will exist which are basically machines reaching out to humans for seeking inputs to work on more complex tasks. While the world is moving away from physical work attributes like dress code, physical location wherever possible, there is a need for something else to be in its place to create a sense of belonging, purpose and engagement. The culture of organization becomes paramount here and will need structure and tools that helps propagate itself.
I wouldn’t call this book a practitioner’s handbook but ideas and references made me think and research on how it may impact me and my customers.
Context for the book - With 2 years of Covid-19 behind us we are now living in a world very different from what used to be a year ago. Large events such as conferences are being scheduled, people have started traveling for work and leisure, employers are open to people working from office. Government, employers and society are equipped with sufficient training, knowledge and tools to deal with another variant of the virus and everyone is expected to be act responsibly and stay vigilant.
Future of Work - How work getting done post pandemic is about creating an environment that is flexible, adaptive, responsible and inclusive which to me is what book aims to highlight as ‘Future of Work’.
What the book is - Change is inevitable and the book talks about ~30+ such change ideas that will influence Future of Work. All of them may not be applicable to you but some of them maybe highly relevant. The book is not about prescriptions or how to guidelines. The considerations listed are ideas you may chew on to see whether it helps you improve your organizational work culture.
It discusses about how physical products are going to be conceived and tested first virtually before being prototyped. Every product will need to offer some sort of online experience replicating the “touch and feel” as people’s attention and energy are online. Often times, the internet is the only place they go for product discovery. The book also refers to ‘persuasive technology’ from BJ Fogg which talks about influencing user behavior by proactively leading them to outcomes you want than being reactive. While this has been used for decades at facebook, google or amazon, traditional businesses have an opportunity to do so in their organization with the current tools available. The concept of super-humans is mentioned that talks about a case where instead of humans just instructing machines to do routine tasks via automation, a hybrid avatar will exist which are basically machines reaching out to humans for seeking inputs to work on more complex tasks. While the world is moving away from physical work attributes like dress code, physical location wherever possible, there is a need for something else to be in its place to create a sense of belonging, purpose and engagement. The culture of organization becomes paramount here and will need structure and tools that helps propagate itself.
I wouldn’t call this book a practitioner’s handbook but ideas and references made me think and research on how it may impact me and my customers.
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