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Organizations, managers and workers still have an Industrial Era mindset towards work. How can leaders guide individuals and organizations to solve the increasingly complex work challenges of tomorrow?
As traditional jobs give way to new work roles and software and robots perform the repetitive tasks formerly done by humans, the work of today is no longer guaranteed to be here tomorrow. The Next Rules of Work helps leaders understand why traditional notions about work inhibit the organization's ability to address new problems and how they can successfully equip their organizations to manage constant change. By first developing a new mindset to help themselves and their teams become more agile, leaders can then co-create the organization's "next mindset" by answering five key questions that help them establish constantly adaptive strategies. Finally, leaders develop agile learning practices to ensure that workers will continually have the skillsets and toolsets they need to solve organizational problems today.
By redefining the fundamental nature of work, teams and the organization, The Next Rules of Work goes beyond offering advice and predictions and provides organizational leaders with a guide to create truly agile organizations that can respond to perpetual change.
List of contents
- Chapter - 00: Introduction;
- Section - ONE: Rules;
- Chapter - 01: The Old Rules of Work;
- Chapter - 02: The Next Rules of Work;
- Section - TWO: Mindset;
- Chapter - 03: Your Organization's Culture Is Its Mindset;
- Chapter - 04: The Problem-Solving Mindset of Workers and Teams;
- Section - THREE: Skillset;
- Chapter - 05: The Skills of Next Organizations;
- Chapter - 06: The Skills of Tomorrow for Workers and Teams - PACE;
- Section - FOUR: Toolset;
- Chapter - 07: The Next Toolset for Organizations;
- Chapter - 08: The Next Toolset for Workers and Teams;
- Chapter - 09: Conclusion - The Future We All Want
About the author
Gary A. Bolles is Chair for the Future of Work with Singularity University and is a partner in the strategy consulting firm Charette, LLC based in San Francisco, California. A globally recognized expert on the future of work, he consults with C-suite leaders of global companies, labor and education leaders from Brazil to Canada and non-profits and non-governmental organizations around the world. He is the co-founder of eParachute.com, inspired by his father's bestselling book "What Color Is Your Parachute?", the former COO of Evolve Software, the former VP Marketing for Network Products Corporation, and former editorial director for five enterprise technology magazines, including Inter@ctive Week and Network Computing.
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"I can't think of a better time to start rethinking work, or a better book to help you do it. Gary A. Bolles has produced a provocative and practical guide for reimagining how you design jobs, build teams, solve problems and shape cultures." Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLife
