Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself by Daniel H. Pink

Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself



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Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself Daniel H. Pink ebook
Page: 400
ISBN: 9780446678797
Format: pdf
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing


As leaders we [i] Daniel Pink, Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself (Grand Central Publishing, 2002). It's often said that America is becoming a “free-agent nation,” with a growing number of people working for themselves and starting businesses. America's shift from a nation of entrepreneurs to a nation working for corporations and government was a profound change in national life that even today is not well or fully understood. The birth of a 'Free Agent Nation' The freelance Over a decade ago, Daniel Pink noticed the trend, dubbed it “Free Agent Nation” and wrote a best-selling book of the same name. Home life, the sphere where Woman with her superior moral instincts reigned supreme, was seen as an ideal space where boys and girls alike could grow up pure and free. About a couple of years ago, I had read an article based on a book by Daniel Pink –on Free Agent Nation. We accepted the idea that some people may never be full-time employees again and began our evolution to a "free agent nation." This recession is ushering in a return to furloughs. Pinks first book, FREE AGENT NATION: The Future of Working for Yourself, was a Washington Post bestseller that Publishers Weekly says has become a cornerstone of employee-management relations. Or are we headed towards a “free agent nation”, in which a large and growing share of the work force is self-employed, as Daniel Pink describes in his book “Free Agent Nation: the Future of Working for Yourself“? America is a nation of dreamers; building the future by following those dreams is what we do best. Another thing, if you are freelancing, you will find yourself having to generate estimates. In the future, moreover, a greater number of workers will be on their own whether they like it or not, as corporations continue to shift toward “just in time” labor practices—replacing salaried employees with temporary independent . Just as science-fiction writers of the '40s and '5os imagined the future world in 2000 as a sleek, shiny place curiously devoid of all the infrastructure previously built (New York City now doesn't look all that different from what it looked like then), Global professional services company Towers Watson did a survey, the Global Workforce Study, that found the long recession and jobless recovery have indeed soured workers on the concept of the “free-agent nation”:. Before talking to Is this indeed the future of work? The same year, Pink released Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself, a book about entrepreneurship, personal fulfillment, and what the new economy will look like without cradle to grave employment. Rule the Future and Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us as well as Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself and The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need. The topic is a visual evolution of the ideas Dan presented in his other books: "Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself" and "A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future". Hive mind: Working around the clock in hyper-connected 'swarms' - is this the future of work? Amy's dad has been kind enough to recommend and lend me “Free Agent Nation – The future of working for yourself” by Daniel H. Unfortunately, instead of gaining a sense of meaning from our work sometimes we just feel unmoved.

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