Category Archives: workflow-markets

Forthcoming book: Workforce of One — Revolutionizing Talent Management Through Customization.

Workforce of One, a Harvard Business Press book, is scheduled to be in stores in early May, 2010. An excerpt (from an advance copy): You might have trouble imagining how employees could set their own salaries with no organizationally imposed limits. But that’s exactly what people do in the U.S. Navy. The navy has an online job-auction [...]
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Wired mag: manufacturing jobs will be found/created via workflow markets

From the cover story of the January 2010 issue of Wired magazine: Thus the new industrial organizational model. It’s built around small pieces, loosely joined. Companies are small, virtual, and informal. Most participants are not employees. They form and re-form on the fly, driven by ability and need rather than affiliation and obligation. It doesn’t matter [...]
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