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20 Must-Reads on the Future of Work
*Sophie's book--Embracing Progress--is recognized as being visionary reading about the Future of Work and a 'MUST READ':
The beginning of the year is a time when we start thinking about the future. As CEO of Upwork, I read widely in order to better anticipate and understand the trends in work. If you want to immerse yourself in visionary reading about the future of work, education, and cities—and perhaps even become your own futurist—check out my picks that look to the road ahead.
The Six Secrets of Effective Remote Working and Collaborating
A distributed workforce is becoming the reality for (almost) every company. However, effective remote working and collaboration habits are not self-evident and generally differ substantially from what works in-office. An enabling environment combines open and adaptable mindsets with active and equitable communication supported by seamless connectivity, video capabilities, and other relevant applications.
Cracking the Code of Behavioral Change for Employees’ Healthy (and More Productive) Well-Being
Behavioral science is a relatively new and influential domain. It helps us understand ourselves better—which is certainly welcome as we come to recognize how we are predisposed to stick with routines no matter how uncomfortable, unhealthy or illogical they may be. We can now also work out how to overcome the burden of this inertia, modify our habits positively and maintain new activities—such as improving our health, safety, or productivity—for ourselves or our employees.
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Sophie is a Workforce Innovation Specialist. She is an authority on the wide-ranging Future-of-Work issues impacting companies and workers’ new demands – such as attracting, engaging and retaining talent; digital transformation; managing a distributed workforce; and new career paradigms.
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Associate Professor,
Harvard Medical School
“Sophie Wade brings a thoughtful and refreshing perspective to the critical topic of the Future of Work. She has spent much time and energy assessing how we can achieve better performance, engagement, and career satisfaction in the workplace. Embracing Progress is full of good ideas that can help us all think more creatively about how we work. It couldn’t come at a more important time.”
“Sophie Wade brings to readers fresh ideas and terrific strategies aimed at helping them to succeed in today’s and tomorrow’s dynamic work environment, with experience from her own career that has been latticed and diverse.”