Description
The best tools and insights to succesfully navigate the novel challenges of the digital workplace.
How can technology and analytics help companies manage people? Why do teams working remotely still need leaders? When should organizations use digital assessment tools for gauging talent and potential? This book from MIT Sloan Management Review answers questions managers are only beginning to ask, presenting insights and stories from organizations navigating the novel challenges of the digital workplace. Experts from business and academia describe what's worked, what's failed, and what they've learned in the new world of work, looking at strategies that organizations use to help managers and employees adapt to the fast-changing digital environment.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Managing Today for the Future
I: Managing People
1 Train Your People to Think in Code, David Waller
2 Leisure Is Our Killer App, Adam Waytz
3 Self-Reports Spur Self-Reflection, Angela Duckworth
4 Career Management Isn't Just the Employee's Job, Matthew Bidwell and Federica De Stefano,
5 Can We Really Test People for Potential?, Reb Rebele
6 Does AI-Flavored Feedback Require a Human Touch?, Michael Schrage
7 What Managers Can Gain from Anonymous Chats, Ryan Bonnici
8 Are Your Employees Driven to Digital Distraction?, Brian Solis
II: Managing Teams
9 Get Things Done with Smaller Teams, Chris DeBrusk
10 Why Teams Still Need Leaders, Lindred Greer and Frieda Klotz
11 Why Teams Should Record Individual Expectations, Ken Favaro and Manish Jhunjhunwala
12 Collaborate Smarter, Not Harder, Rob Cross, Thomas H. Davenport, and Peter Gray
13 Improve the Rhythm of Your Collaboration, Ethan Bernstein, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer
III: Managing Organizations
14 Reframing the Future of Work, Jeff Schwartz, John Hagel III, Maggie Wooll, and Kelly Monahan
15 It's Time to Rethink the IT Talent Model, Will Poindexter and Steve Berez
16 New Ways to Gauge Talent and Potential, Josh Bersin and Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
17 New Frontiers in Re-skilling and Upskilling, Lynda Gratton
18 How Managers Can Best Support a Gig Workforce, Adam Roseman
19 Unleashing Innovation with Collaboration Platforms, Massimo Magni and Likoebe Maruping
IV: Case Study
20 Rebooting Work for a Digital Era, David Kiron and Barbara Spindel
Commentary: HR Transformation as the Engine for Business Renewal, Anna A. Tavis
