Recommended Reading
for Digital Workplace Strategists, Enterprise Community, Organizational Design, Change Management, Knowledge Management, and Workplace Operations Leaders.
The efficiency and productivity increases generated by digital transformation and AI have too often left employees overwhelmed and competing with technology. Instead of using their uniquely human skills and value, they are scrambling to keep up with the enormous increase in information flow. It is ironically, making employees less effective, stressed, and less engaged.
The changing information dynamics precipitated by technology require us to radically rethink what it means to be human and how to best use our time and energy. It will also require a radical change to how we think about organizations and employees as we transition from a task-based orientation to a focus on alignment, meaning, imagining new possibilities, and creating new ideas and solutions in the white spaces of uncharted opportunity. At the same time, medical and social science research has been changing rapidly and offering new understanding about people, their behavior, and what it means to thrive.
The books below come from various disciplines, but all prompt us to think differently about people, their needs, and their value. Together, they form a composite orientation around communities as the core operating system for human excellence and inform how I think about the future of work, leadership, and organizations.
