The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life
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Exploring the skills managers will need in a workplace in which the power to decide belongs to everyone, this optimistic book shows how we can help... read full description

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Dec 06, 2010
Tommy rated it: 5 of 5 stars
I thought this book was just excellent. I don't think there were any radical new ideas in the book necessarily but the organization and explanations were amazing. It really compiled and made sense of a lot of information and took a lot of implicit knowledge and made it explicit. As a math guy I can compare it to Euclid and his book Elements Of Geometry: Containing The First Six Books Of Euclid. Like it, this book has some new insights sprinkled with a whole new framework of thinking of the topic More...
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Dec 23, 2009
Gilda rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I am constantly searching for good books about organizational development, particularly for social movement organizations, of which there are .....well, so far, I haven't found any. So that leads me to the business management section which has millions of offerings, mostly fads, idea or guy du jour, and which can be boiled down into a paragraph or two.

This book is a good one for people who are interested in a thoughtful analysis of possible organization structures and good questio More...
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Feb 09, 2009
Kelly rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I would love an update on this, just to see how some of the predictions and ideas have been impacted by the 2.0 movement. I was really game on the book until the last couple of chapters when Malone gets just a little too politically left for me to handle.
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Jul 23, 2008
Andrew rated it: 5 of 5 stars
The future of work is about outsourcing and colaboration. The way a movie is made through contractors and many companies working together to build something great is how companies in the future are going to work.
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Apr 11, 2010
Leo rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Got this book in a Web 2.0 and Collaboration Summit and Conference. Looking forward to it.
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Jan 06, 2008
Tammy rated it: 5 of 5 stars
A must read to understand how our work world is changing -- and why.
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