Alive

We are all digital humans now. What does this mean for how we live and how we work? How do digital humans thrive in a connected world?

Life and work today is a connected mass of networks, people and technology. This connected world is so complex and fast evolving it can be considered alive.

Hierarchies are being undermined. Work is no longer controlled by the bosses. What is the role of the leader? What does it mean for us? When everything is connected, how do organizations make themselves unique? How can they continuously transform and keep up? What does this mean for the future of consulting?

This book is about the impact of digital on both us as individuals and when we organise ourselves. Humans have achieved awe-inspiring things by working together. Digital enables us to collaborate and work together like never before in history. It also has radical implications for how we live, organize ourselves and work together. The how is as important as the what. How do you actually get things done instead of just having endless meetings and conversations? In short, how do we make the most of all that digital has to offer and at the same time avoid its pitfalls?

In this provocative and insightful book, Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones shine a light on how to activate organizations so that they can transform themselves and what digital means for the people who work within them.

We are all digital humans now. What does this mean for how we live and how we work? How do digital humans thrive in a connected world?

Life and work today is a connected mass of networks, people and technology.  This connected world is so complex and fast evolving it can be considered alive.

Hierarchies are being undermined. Work is no longer controlled by the bosses. What is the role of the leader? What does it mean for us? When everything is connected, how do organizations make themselves unique? How can they continuously transform and keep up? What does this mean for the future of consulting?

This book is about the impact of digital on both us as individuals and when we organise ourselves. Humans have achieved awe-inspiring things by working together. Digital enables us to collaborate and work together like never before in history.  It also has radical implications for how we live, organize ourselves and work together.  The how is as important as the what.  How do you actually get things done instead of just having endless meetings and conversations?   In short, how do we make the most of all that digital has to offer and at the same time avoid its pitfalls?

In this provocative and insightful book, Paul Ashcroft and Garrick Jones shine a light on how to activate organizations so that they can transform themselves – and what digital means for the people who work within them.

Foreword

Introduction

Section 1: Our future digital selves

1. Our brave new digital world

2. Living in a changing world

3. The activated organization

Section 2: Decision-making and executing
4. The spine

5. Build together

6. The organization of one
7. Add-app-ability

Section 3: Engaging and motivating
8. Theatres of work

9. Build beautiful things

10. Play the game
11. The power of small things
 
Section 4: Learning and getting to the next level
12. Targets and the mirror
13. Always learning
14. Meaningful alternatives

15. Turn it on

Afterword

Terms of art

Sources and links

Acknowledgements