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The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
The future is here. How is your organization responding?
Amid the turbulence of a global pandemic, worldwide social justice movements, and accelerated digital transformation, one thing is clear—work will no longer be the same. Employees now expect a flexible, inclusive workplace and a deeper connection to their employer. Organizations must commit to doing good for their people and communities. What should you and your company be doing to adapt?
The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking about creating a work-from-anywhere organization, harnessing AI as part of your team, creating an inclusive culture, and building a purpose-driven organization.
Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.
You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.
Amid the turbulence of a global pandemic, worldwide social justice movements, and accelerated digital transformation, one thing is clear—work will no longer be the same. Employees now expect a flexible, inclusive workplace and a deeper connection to their employer. Organizations must commit to doing good for their people and communities. What should you and your company be doing to adapt?
The Future of Work: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking about creating a work-from-anywhere organization, harnessing AI as part of your team, creating an inclusive culture, and building a purpose-driven organization.
Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow.
You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.
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177 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 17, 2021
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June 1, 2022
This book is a set of sections that are published at HBR.
The book highlights few important points with dramatic changes happened to the workplace environment:
1. Employees sourcing: adding on demand talents using new platforms became essential,
2. On-boarding AI with clear message that is not threatening employees future,
3. The negative impact of remote work in terms of performance evaluation, mental health, and social impact.
The book highlights few important points with dramatic changes happened to the workplace environment:
1. Employees sourcing: adding on demand talents using new platforms became essential,
2. On-boarding AI with clear message that is not threatening employees future,
3. The negative impact of remote work in terms of performance evaluation, mental health, and social impact.
November 22, 2022
Interesting insight into how the next generation looks at work and how to be more successful as an employer
February 7, 2024
The Coronavirus pandemic provided a great challenge for modern business and introduced new challenges for us all to address. Post-pandemic, business is working through which novelties are good to keep and which to discard. Among these are remote work, artificial intelligence, ESG (environment, social, and governance), and social justice movements (like DEI). This book, compiled by Harvard Business Review (HBR), seeks to help business leaders make smarter decisions by understanding ways to make the most out of work’s changing landscape.
Like other HBR books from this series, this book is exceedingly short. It collects individual essays produced by thought leaders. So it’s a short conglomeration of short articles. That’s both a strength and a weakness. It offers busy business leaders an intellectual lens to understand the latest trends through expert analysis, but it does not provide an in-depth treatment on any.
The overall viewpoint is one of thoughtful progress. It does not fight historical trends, but instead critically analyzes them in order to push organizations ahead. While popular journalism and political leaders often engage in culture wars, this book avoids those passions in favor of an integrative, philosophical approach. Discussions engage in high-level overviews that hit on all the right key concepts. Each chapter ends in suggested takeaways to summarize its findings. However, it lacks in-depth investigation of one-or-more fundamental issues – a constraint of the entire series.
Organizational leaders provide the intended audience of HBR’s series. An audiobook format, which I used, is adequate to understand. This kind of writing that can be listened to and thought through to-and-from work, while doing dishes, or in the car bussing one’s children around. It’s very accessible and does not require advanced education to get the main point in a thorough but quick manner. HBR provides another focused work to provide leading thoughts to the managerial front lines.
Like other HBR books from this series, this book is exceedingly short. It collects individual essays produced by thought leaders. So it’s a short conglomeration of short articles. That’s both a strength and a weakness. It offers busy business leaders an intellectual lens to understand the latest trends through expert analysis, but it does not provide an in-depth treatment on any.
The overall viewpoint is one of thoughtful progress. It does not fight historical trends, but instead critically analyzes them in order to push organizations ahead. While popular journalism and political leaders often engage in culture wars, this book avoids those passions in favor of an integrative, philosophical approach. Discussions engage in high-level overviews that hit on all the right key concepts. Each chapter ends in suggested takeaways to summarize its findings. However, it lacks in-depth investigation of one-or-more fundamental issues – a constraint of the entire series.
Organizational leaders provide the intended audience of HBR’s series. An audiobook format, which I used, is adequate to understand. This kind of writing that can be listened to and thought through to-and-from work, while doing dishes, or in the car bussing one’s children around. It’s very accessible and does not require advanced education to get the main point in a thorough but quick manner. HBR provides another focused work to provide leading thoughts to the managerial front lines.
November 23, 2023
This is the danger of extrapolating the present to predict the future! Already the wild predictions of the world working from home - or, worse, working from anywhere have been invalidated literally within weeks and months of covid being consigned to history.
Overall, the book is just a random rambling of sorts! Worth skipping.
Overall, the book is just a random rambling of sorts! Worth skipping.
May 17, 2025
It has good points about being purposed and mission driven as a company and individual. It also makes great points about how companies need to adapt to use the on demand economy. However, the points about remote work and ESG are already known to many of us.
April 7, 2022
Insightful reading for those pushing the way for new ways of getting things done at work!
November 28, 2022
Very certain about remote work and how can we all make it work
September 28, 2024
Remote work, authentic individualism, psychological safety. Diversity, equity, inclusion.
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January 24, 2022
Although the title intrigued me, the chapters were honestly quite bland and it feels like something I would get from watching the news or scrolling through my FB explore page.
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