The Next Rules of Work: The Mindset, Skillset and Toolset to Lead Your Organization through Uncertainty
- Length: 280 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Kogan Page
- Publication Date: 2021-08-31
- ISBN-10: 1398601632
- ISBN-13: 9781398601635
- Sales Rank: #518410 (See Top 100 Books)
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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One Rules
01 The Old Rules of Work
You Climb into a Time Machine
How We Learned the Old Rules of Work
A Brief History of Human Work
Work, Meet Technology
Technology, Rising
The Century-Old Rules of Work
So Now… What’s Work?
What’s a Skill?
Where Do You Begin to Learn Skills?
What’s a Job?
What’s a Career?
What’s a Team?
What’s a Manager?
What’s a Workplace?
What’s an Organization?
How Have Organizations Managed Change?
What Is the Purpose of an Organization?
This Is Why We Need the Next Rules
02 The Next Rules of Work
Time Machine Time
The Four Core Next Rules
These Are the Transformed Rules of Work
Mini-Workbook: An Aristotle Canvas for Individuals and One for Organizations
Looking through the Lens of Mindset, Skillset, and Toolset
Effectiveness, Growth, Involvement, Alignment
Part Two Mindset
03 Your Organization’s Culture Is Its Mindset
What’s a Mindset?
What Mindset Does Your Organization Actually Have?
What Mindset Do You Need?
When You Need a Mindset Shift in Your Organization: The Great Reset
How Do You Catalyze Mindset Change?
Who Should Catalyze Mindset Change?
Insights on Successful Mindset Alignment
Correction: Maybe Anyone Can Help Catalyze Mindset Transformation
04 The Problem-Solving Mindset of Workers and Teams
Magic Wand Time
You Are a Complex and Adaptive Ecosystem
You, Problem-Solver
A Team Is a Band of Problem-Solvers
Why Young People Want to Solve Problems with Purpose
Part Three Skillset
05The Skills of Next Organizations
Magic Wand Time
Redefining the Role of Those Who Lead in Organizations
A Skillset for Empowering Effectiveness
A Skillset for Enabling Growth
A Skillset for Ensuring Involvement
A Skillset for Encouraging Alignment
Maximizing the Skillset of the Organization: The Inside Gig
Hiring Is the Key to the Next Skillset
Beyond Skills: Human Thriving
We Must Co-Create the New Management Together
From the Guide, to the Individual and the Team
06The Skills of Tomorrow for Workers and Teams: PACE
It Is the Day You Were Born
The Four Flex Skills of Tomorrow: PACE
Problem-Solver (Part of the Skillset for Effectiveness)
Adaptive (Part of the Skillset for Alignment)
Creative (Part of the Skillset for Growth)
Empathy (Part of the Skillset for Involvement)
Building the User Manual of You: Four Key Insights
Skillset as a Team Sport
The Third Leg of the Stool: Toolset
Part Four Toolset
07The Next Toolset for Organizations
Magic Wand Time, Again
Organizational Techniques and Technologies to Deliver Value to Stakeholders
Design Requirements for the Organizational Toolset for Work
What about Digital Transformation?
Next: What Tools Do Workers and Teams Need?
08The Next Toolset for Workers and Teams
You and I Hop Back into the Time Machine
A Next Toolset for Individuals and Teams
Tools to Empower Effectiveness for Workers and Teams
Tools to Enable Growth for Workers and Teams
Tools to Ensure Involvement for Workers and Teams
Tools to Encourage Alignment for Workers and Teams
The Top Priority for Next Organizations: Empowering the Worker and the Team
Tying It All Together
This Is the Start of the Future We All Want
Conclusion
Magic Wand Time, Again
The Four Domains of an Inclusive Future of Work
Individuals: Balance the Table
Organizations: Purpose-Driven in their DNA
Communities: Ecosystems Where Everyone Can Thrive
Countries: Same Storm, Different Boats
The Fair and Just System We All Want
Next
Appendix—Strategic HR: Build a New Table
Endnotes
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