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All Edge: Inside the New Workplace Networks
Clay Spinuzzi
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Description for All Edge: Inside the New Workplace Networks
Hardcover. Work is changing. Speed and flexibility are more in demand than ever before thanks to an accelerating knowledge economy and communication networks. The author offers for the first time a comprehensive framework for understanding how these new groups function and thrive. His analysis tackles both the pros and cons of this evolving workflow. Num Pages: 224 pages, 14 halftones, 9 tables. BIC Classification: GTC; KJN; KJP; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 468.
Work is changing. Speed and flexibility are more in demand than ever before thanks to an accelerating knowledge economy and sophisticated communication networks. These changes have forced a mass rethinking of the way we coordinate, collaborate, and communicate. Instead of projects coming to established teams, teams are increasingly converging around projects. These "all-edge adhocracies" are highly collaborative and mostly temporary, their edge coming from the ability to form links both inside and outside an organization. These nimble groups come together around a specific task, recruiting personnel, assigning roles, and establishing objectives. When the work is done they disband and their ... Read more
Work is changing. Speed and flexibility are more in demand than ever before thanks to an accelerating knowledge economy and sophisticated communication networks. These changes have forced a mass rethinking of the way we coordinate, collaborate, and communicate. Instead of projects coming to established teams, teams are increasingly converging around projects. These "all-edge adhocracies" are highly collaborative and mostly temporary, their edge coming from the ability to form links both inside and outside an organization. These nimble groups come together around a specific task, recruiting personnel, assigning roles, and establishing objectives. When the work is done they disband and their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226236964
SKU
V9780226236964
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Ref
99-15
About Clay Spinuzzi
Clay Spinuzzi is professor of rhetoric and writing at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Tracing Genres through Organizations, Network, and Topsight.
Reviews for All Edge: Inside the New Workplace Networks
"In All Edge, Spinuzzi gives us a look at the new workplace, the one we've been told is coming for decades now, in striking and compelling detail. The book is a boundary-crossing work that presents a wealth of much-needed evidence for the claims that our work lives are changing in the twenty-first century. We may still be waiting on jetpacks, ... Read more