The Future of Work

WINNER OF CMI MANAGEMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 Are you a future-ready leader? Based on exclusive interviews with over 140 of the world's top CEOs and a survey of nearly 14,000 people. Do you have the right mindsets and skills to be able to lead effectively in the next ten years and beyond? Most individuals and organizations don't even know what leadership will look like in the future. Until now. There has been a lot written about leadership for the present day, but the world is changing quickly. What worked in the past won't work in the future. We need to know how to prepare leaders who can successfully navigate and guide us through the next decade and beyond. How is leadership changing, and why? How ready are leaders today for these changes? What should leaders do now? To answer these questions, Jacob interviewed over 140 CEOs from companies like Unilever, Mastercard, Best Buy, Oracle, Verizon, Kaiser, KPMG, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Yum! Brands, Saint-Gobain, Dominos, Philip Morris International, and over a hundred others. Jacob also partnered with Linkedin to survey almost 14,000 of their members around the globe to see how CEO insights align with employee perspectives The majority of the world's top business leaders that Jacob interviewed believe that while some core aspects of leadership will remain the same, such as creating a vision and executing on strategy, leaders of the future will need a new arsenal of skills and mindsets to succeed. What emerged from all of this research is the most accurate groundbreaking book on the future of leadership, which shares exclusive insights from the world's top CEOs and never before seen research. After reading it, you will:  - Learn the greatest trends impacting the future of leadership and their implications - Understand the top skills and mindsets that leaders of the future will need to possess and how to learn them - Change your perception of who a leader is and what leadership means - Tackle the greatest challenges that leaders of the future will face - See the gap that exists between what CEOs identified versus what employees are actually experiencing - Become a future-ready leader This is the book that you, your team, and your organization must read in order to lead in the future of work.

Organizations around the world have lost their way. It's time to get back to basics and focus on what really drives people and performance. In chasing talent, organizations have turned employee experience into an entitlement culture - lavishing perks without accountability, lowering standards in the name of empathy, and confusing short-term fixes with long-term solutions. The result? Performance suffers, leaders are scared to lead, and culture drifts. The 8 Laws of Employee Experience is a reset, a new framework to build a future-ready organization in an AI driven world. Best-selling author and professionally trained futurist Jacob Morgan shows that employee experience must return to its core: a value exchange where employees contribute, grow, and lead, and where organizations enable them to thrive. Based on over 100 CHRO interviews at companies like Verizon, Delta, Hilton, IBM,and LVMH, Morgan lays out eight unshakeable laws that form the new operating system for the future of work. This book isn't just about where we are today - it's about where employee experience is going over the next decade, and how leaders can design the future instead of being dragged into it. After reading this book you'll learn how to: - Separate signal from noise in an era of trend-chasing with the STEEPLE methodology - Discover the eight laws required to build a future-ready organization and how to implement them - Use futurist frameworks like the Cone of Possibilities to map out multiple employee experience scenarios - Conduct a future-ready audit to see where your company stands today and where it must go next - Explore the five potential futures of employee experience and how to steer your organization towards the right one - Challenge the myth that employee experience is about making people happy Combining insights from CHROs who are collectively leading millions of people around the world with a futurist framework, The 8 Laws of Employee Experience: How to Build a Future-Ready Organization offers a blueprint to design organizations that don't just adapt to the future but build it. You'll see what works, what fails, and what the future demands.