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9780787902834

Free Agents People and Organizations Creating a New Working Community

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  • ISBN13:

    9780787902834

  • ISBN10:

    0787902837

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-02-19
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass
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Summary

Your roadmap for the new world of work Today's deluge of organizational change needn't leave employer and employee at odds. Free Agents presents a win-win scenario for both. Here, individuals learn how to take charge of their lives and careers, to separate themselves from their jobs and redefine themselves in terms of the new marketplace. Organizations discover a process for aligning the needs of these empowered professionals with the needs of the organization. It helps them to improve their competitive advantage, create and sustain a Free Agent community, and establish an environment where everyone is committed to excellence. An upbeat alternative to marketplace malaise.

Author Biography

SUSAN B. GOULD lives in Portola Valley, California. KERRY J. WEINER lives in San Francisco, California. BARBARA R. LEVIN lives in Portola Valley, California.

Table of Contents

Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxv
The Authors xxvii
Responding to Change
1(18)
What Has Changed?
The Pain of Change
Embracing Change
Free Agent Code
Corporate Challenge
The New Ethic
Part One: Becoming a Free Agent
The Free Agent Process: Creating a New Future
19(12)
Becoming a Free Agent
Feelings
Getting Started
Challenges
Am I There Yet?
Summing Up
Separating: Drawing the Final Curtain
31(18)
Endings
Painful Feelings and Self-Defeating Behavior
Skills
Strategies
Moving On
Redefining: Moving Beyond Comfort
49(14)
Obstacles
Strategies
Assembling Your Portfolio of Assets
Final Synthesis
Positioning: Staking Your Claim
63(22)
Markets
Stresses and Strains
Skills
Strategies
Making Your Decision
Making the Sale
Part Two: Becoming a Free Agent Community
The Need for Corporate Change: Sailing into Uncharted Waters
85(10)
The New Community
The Process of Building Community
Challenges
Accepting the Challenge
Corporate Separating: Embracing the New
95(16)
Getting on Board
Clarity of Purpose
Communication
Control
Creating an Oasis
Redefining the Corporate Infrastructure
111(14)
Communication Systems
Performance-Management Systems
Compensation Systems
Reward and Recognition Systems
Corporate Positioning
125(14)
Matching Skills to Corporate Needs
Updating Recruiting and Hiring Systems
Providing Development Opportunities
Making It Easy for People to Leave
The Benefits
Part Three: Sustaining Free Agents and a Free Agent Community
Living the Free Agent Life
139(14)
Why Commit to Being a Free Agent for Life?
The Free Agent Life
Feelings
Challenges
Strategies
Are You a Committed Free Agent?
Maintaining a Free Agent Community
153(12)
The Sustaining Process
Sustaining a Dispersed Community
Free Agent Communities in Action
165(10)
Entertainment Model
Publishing Model
High-Tech Model
References 175(4)
For Further Information 179(2)
Index 181

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