Lead the Work, First Edition, Navigating a World beyond Employment by Jesuthasan, Ravin, Creelman, David, Boudreau, John W. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Dedication Foreword Acknowledgments Part One: The Background

Chapter 1: Leading Work—Not Managing Employees

Work: Escaping Traditional Regular Full-Time Employment Work Is Leaving Organizations Talent Platforms Optimize Freelancing Seeing a Pattern in the Pieces Notes

Chapter 2: Free Agent World

Why Employment Evolved, and What's Evolving Next Problems in Job Land The Less “Regular” Full-Time Job The Starbucks Office and the Social Acceptability of Free Agency From Free Agent Nation to Free Agent World The Implications of Free Agent World The Remaining Barriers to World Domination Notes

Chapter 3: Outsourcing and Alliances

The Rise of Outsourcing The Rise of Alliances Notes

Chapter 4: The Talent Platforms

Upwork Tongal Topcoder The Less “Regular” Full-Time Job MTurk Notes

Part Two: The Model

Chapter 5: Leading the Work Beyond Employment: A Decision Framework

Chapter 6: How IBM Leads the Work

IBM's Open Talent Marketplace The Assignment Agency: Optimizing Work in a Single Unit The Lesson of IBM Notes

Chapter 7: The Assignment: How Much to Deconstruct, Disperse, and Detach?

How Small to Deconstruct? How Widely to Disperse? How Far from Employment to Detach? Unlocking the Code: Applying the Three Dimensions of the Assignment Conclusion Notes

Chapter 8: The New Organization: Permeable, Interlinked, Collaborative, and Flexible

Organizational Form How Easily to Permeate? How Strongly to Interlink? How Deeply to Collaborate? How Extensively to Flex? Making Decisions about the Organization: Permeate, Interlink, Collaborate, and Flex PICF Pictured How PICF Makes Leading the Work Easier Notes

Chapter 9: The Reward: Short-Term, Individualized, and Imaginative

Navigating Rewards beyond Employment How Short the Time Frame? How Specifically to Individualize? How Creatively to Imagine the Reward? The Value of the New Rewards for Leaders, Clients, and Workers Optimizing the Reward Dials to Lead the Work: Netflix, Foldit, and SAS Notes

Part Three: Implications

Chapter 10: Future HR Practices in Leading the Work

HR Beyond Employment: Work Engineering The Talent Lifecycle Planning Attracting/Sourcing Selecting Deploying and Developing Rewarding Separating Leading the Work by “Rewiring” HR Notes

Chapter 11: Future HR Outcomes in Leading the Work

Engagement and Culture Leadership Diversity and Inclusion Performance The New HR Professional: Leader, Architect, Engineer, and Orchestrator of a Boundaryless Global Workplace Notes

Chapter 12: Governance and Stakeholders

A Perspective on the Future of Unions Some Closing Thoughts on Governance and Stakeholders Notes

Chapter 13: Nations, Citizens, and Children

The Bright Side of a World Beyond Employment The Dark Side of a World Beyond Employment Who Is Right, the Optimists or the Pessimists? What Should We Do? Conclusion Notes

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