Imagine organizations where bosses give employees huge freedom to decide what to do and when to do it. Imagine electing your own bosses and voting directly on important company decisions. Imagine organizations where most workers aren't employees at all, but electronically connected freelancers living wherever they want to. And imagine that all this freedom in business lets people get more of whatever they really want in life -- money, interesting work, helping other people, or time with their families. In "The Future of Work", renowned organizational theorist Thomas Malone argues that a convergence of technological and economic factors -- particularly the rapidly falling cost of communication -- is enabling a change in business organizations as profound as the shift to democracy in governments. For the first time in history, it will be possible to have the best of both worlds -- the economic and scale efficiencies of large organizations, and the human benefits of small ones: freedom, motivation, and flexibility. This new book, published by Harvard Business School Press, is either already out (according to HBSP) or soon to arrive (Amazon). |
