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It?s time we change the conversation. It?s time to talk about how being human has never been more critical and how we have more agency in applying our talents than at any other time in history. We need to have more real and honest conversations about how to build a better model of the future of work, one in which both employers and employees feel safe and energized.
The digital age has created a self-empowered group of "Change Agents" who demand more of their jobs and who are revolutionizing offices and organizations across the country-whether the old guard likes it or not. Based on unique and compelling research, Work Quake is a clear-eyed look at what the workplace will be like for the rest of the 21st century. It reveals a combustible generation gap through trends like: Lifestyle Entrepreneurialism: The classic career arc has become a jagged line. Full Engagement: The wired world is not just phoning it in. Convergence: The boundary between life and work blurs and the Change Agents like it that way. Getting a life: Unlike Boomers, the new wave believes that work (even if it takes eighteen hours a day) is just a job-they can and will walk away from it. Preemie Retirement: What does it mean when the best employees work 24/7, cash out at 35, and move on? No Prisoners: The Change Agents will do whatever it takes to get ahead. Ruthless? Sure. But they're that driven. Work Quake helps bridge the digitally driven generation gap and illuminates what that gap means for productivity, job security, and the future.
With his distinctive, direct and oft-humorous approach, "recovering attorney" and long-time business and executive coach Paul Glover bares his knuckles to present 76 strategies and tips to thrive in the Knowledge Economy. This no-nonsense advice, gleaned from 25 years of helping businesses nationwide prosper, and his popular Bottom Line and Morning Mantra newsletters, carries you through the impact of the recent WorkQuake - the Industrial Economy's final meltdown.
The Great Recession brought rising inequality and changing family economies. New technologies continued to move jobs overseas, including those held by middle-class information workers. The first new edition to capture these historic changes, this book is the leading text in the sociology of work and related research fields. Wharton s readings retain the classics but offer a new spectrum of articles accessible to undergraduate students that focus on the changes that will most affect their lives.New to the fourth edition"
Finding work in a today's changing times is like fighting a war. The "winning side" in this "war" is the one that knows how to positions itself where it has the advantage, the "ground of its own choosing."
Find work you love. On your own terms. From the New York Times bestselling author of Life Is in the Transitions comes a bold new road map for finding meaning and purpose in what you do, based on insights drawn from hundreds of life stories of Americans of all backgrounds. America is at a once-in-a-generation turning point around work: unprecedented numbers are quitting their jobs, rethinking their routines, breaking away from stifling expectations. The most suffocating iron cage of all is the idea that each of us must follow a linear career—lock into a dream early, always climb higher, never stop until you reach the top. Few ideas have squandered more human potential. Employing his signature, immersive approach, Bruce Feiler is known for taking complex challenges and converting them into actionable steps that can help each of us live with more fulfillment and joy. From thousands of hours of interviews, Feiler has distilled a powerful new vision of work: The people who are happiest don’t chase someone else’s dreams; they chase their own. Freed from outdated scripts, they identify what brings them meaning and write their own story of success. The Search introduces an all-new toolkit for achieving that goal, 21 Questions to Find Work You Love. Practical and empowering, these questions will help you unearth the story of work you’ve been trying to tell your whole life—then go achieve it. You’ll discover: · The upsides and downsides of work you learned from your parents; · Why your childhood role model offers the best clue to what you should do now; · Who is your waymaker; · When to leave a job and when to stay; · What is your purpose right now; …and much more. From a master storyteller who’s helped millions transform their lives for better, The Search arrives as the world reimagines the basic assumptions of work and offers a timely, urgent playbook for each of us to get the happiness we seek, the meaning we crave, and the success we deserve.
A New York Times bestseller! A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, has long explored the stories that give our lives meaning. Galvanized by a personal crisis, he spent the last few years crisscrossing the country, collecting hundreds of life stories in all fifty states from Americans who’d been through major life changes—from losing jobs to losing loved ones; from changing careers to changing relationships; from getting sober to getting healthy to simply looking for a fresh start. He then spent a year coding these stories, identifying patterns and takeaways that can help all of us survive and thrive in times of change. What Feiler discovered was a world in which transitions are becoming more plentiful and mastering the skills to manage them is more urgent for all of us. The idea that we’ll have one job, one relationship, one source of happiness is hopelessly outdated. We all feel unnerved by this upheaval. We’re concerned that our lives are not what we expected, that we’ve veered off course, living life out of order. But we’re not alone. Life Is in the Transitions introduces the fresh, illuminating vision of the nonlinear life, in which each of us faces dozens of disruptors. One in ten of those becomes what Feiler calls a lifequake, a massive change that leads to a life transition. The average length of these transitions is five years. The upshot: We all spend half our lives in this unsettled state. You or someone you know is going through one now. The most exciting thing Feiler identified is a powerful new tool kit for navigating these pivotal times. Drawing on his extraordinary trove of insights, he lays out specific strategies each of us can use to reimagine and rebuild our lives, often stronger than before. From a master storyteller with an essential message, Life Is in the Transitions can move readers of any age to think deeply about times of change and how to transform them into periods of creativity and growth.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is upon us. Are you ready for it?The world of work has been disrupted beyond all expectations and many are arguing that this marks a point of exit to a completely different future. To explore the issues of business management, leadership, employment and automation, the author has interviewed and collaborated with renowned thinkers and professionals from around the world to set out the possible challenges, changes, and scenarios that could emerge at workplace. This book will surely provide a platform upon which employees, employers and leaders can successfully future proof their businesses and careers.Praise For 'Future Of Work Simplified'"We all agree that our organizations and societies are not yet ready for the future of work. Zafar's excellent book provides a compelling framework to find practical solutions starting from a credible futuristic approach to organization renewal. What is remarkable about the book is the author's capacity to produce a credible and logical narrative supported by data, insights and solutions. Not to be missed"-Paolo Gallo, Ex-CHRO World Economic Forum & Ex-CLO World Bank, Speaker, Author"Futures thinking has become a key success factor as we plan and prepare for our turbulent VUCA world. Future of Work Simplified explores how strategic foresight can help us consider scenarios and think through new possibilities. Khalil admirably analyzes and illustrates how changes in organizational structure and work patterns will ensue. Definitely a must-read for global leaders, CHROs, entrepreneurs, and all co-creators of our Future of Work."-Sylvia Gallusser, Futurist & Researcher, Founder at Silicon Humanism"In a world where everything is changing fast, Khalil does a great job of outlining what employees, employers and leaders can do to remain relevant and thrive for tomorrow."-Freda Liu, Author, Broadcaster, Coach, Speaker"This insightful guide sets you with preparing people and organization for the future of work where growth is subdued due to disruptions and lack of artificial intelligence and automation."-Sameer Abdullatheef, GM - Group HR, Al Yousuf Group of Companies, UAE"Khalil Zafar's book offers a futuristic look into the vast world of work. If you want to future proof yourself, you need this book!"- Abdulla Al-Nowais, CEO, Al Nowais Group, Abu DhabiWhy Buy This Book?Disruptive innovations are generating new industries and business models, and destroying the old ones. New technologies and innovations like artificial intelligence, automation, data analytics and social networks are having a tremendous impact on the way how work is performed.The purpose of this book, first of all, is to clarify the future of work in a simplified manner, and analyze which factors are going to shape our organizations in the coming few decades.Secondly, to provide readers with the right implementation skills (preparation) that can be used to future proof their careers.This book cut through theory to give readers a playbook of immediate, practical skills that they can learn today and bring straight to their team tomorrow. It's not a book of Nostradamus like predictions. It contains easy to understand and implement real stuff, which really works. The book contains latest surveys and researches, opinions from professionals and thought leaders around the world, as well as real world case examples from public and private sector for better understanding of the subject. The other books out there in market are either too complex for normal audience, or they lack the necessary practical implementation side for the working professionals.This book has been written in a concise article style, easy to understand manner, and most importantly, contains step-by-step tips & tricks, which even an inexperienced manager should be able to implement.
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A leadership and career manifesto told through the narrative of one of today’s most inspiring, admired, and successful global leaders. In Winners Dream, Bill McDermott—the CEO of the world’s largest business software company, SAP—chronicles how relentless optimism, hard work, and disciplined execution embolden people and equip organizations to achieve audacious goals. Growing up in working-class Long Island, a sixteen-year-old Bill traded three hourly wage jobs to buy a small deli, which he ran by instinctively applying ideas that would be the seeds for his future success. After paying for and graduating college, Bill talked his way into a job selling copiers door-to-door for Xerox, where he went on to rank number one in every sales position he held and eventually became the company’s youngest-ever corporate officer. Eventually, Bill left Xerox and in 2002 became the unlikely president of SAP’s flailing American business unit. There, he injected enthusiasm and accountability into the demoralized culture by scaling his deli, sales, and management strategies. In 2010, Bill was named co-CEO, and in May 2014 became SAP’s sole, and first non-European, CEO. Colorful and fast-paced, Bill’s anecdotes contain effective takeaways: gutsy career moves; empathetic sales strategies; incentives that yield exceptional team performance; and proof of the competitive advantages of optimism and hard work. At the heart of Bill’s story is a blueprint for success and the knowledge that the real dream is the journey, not a preconceived destination.
Connecting the Dots by John Chambers,Diane Brady Pdf
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