Julia Hobsbawm

Fully Connected (eBook, PDF)

Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the CMI's Management Book of the Year Award 2018 and the Business Book Awards 2018

Twenty-five years after the arrival of the Internet, we are drowning in data and deadlines. Humans and machines are in fully connected overdrive - and starting to become entwined as never before. Truly, it is an Age of Overload. We can never have imagined that absorbing so much information while trying to maintain a healthy balance in our personal and professional lives could feel so complex, dissatisfying and unproductive.

Something is missing. That something, Julia Hobsbawm argues in this ground-breaking book, is Social Health, a new blueprint for modern connectedness. She begins with the premise that much of what we think about healthy ways to live have not been updated any more than have most post-war modern institutions, which are themselves also struggling in the twenty-first century. In 1946, the World Health Organization defined 'health' as 'a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' What we understood by 'social' in the middle of the last century now desperately needs an update.

In Fully Connected Julia Hobsbawm takes us on a journey - often a personal one, 'from Telex to Twitter' - to illustrate how the answer to the Age of Overload can come from devising management-based systems which are both highly practical and yet intuitive, and which draw inspiration from the huge advances the world has made in tackling other kinds of health, specifically nutrition, exercise, and mental well-being.

Drawing on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, this book provides a cornucopia of case studies and ideas, to educate and inspire a new generation of managers, policymakers and anyone wanting to navigate through the rough seas of overload.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472926869
• Artikelnr.: 48052303

Autorenporträt

Julia Hobsbawm is an expert on connectedness in modern working life. A prominent entrepreneur, media commentator and international speaker for corporate audiences, she has emerged as a leading voice on the future of the workplace, Social Health and behavioural networks: how to best use social network science to enhance productivity, engagement and talent management.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Peak Connection Part One: The Way to Wellville 1. Hostile
Landscapes 2. Fitness as a metaphor 3. New hierarchies of need Part Two:
The Blended Self 4. The social soul 5. Worker beings 6. Networks and
networkers Conclusion: The fully connected future Appendix Postscript
Bibliography Acknowledgements Index