The Interconnected Individual

Given the rapid technological organizational and structural changes that challenge conventional institutions and economies what is the future of work? The authors propose a path to seize opportunity for the individual worker and entrepreneur who can be newly interconnected and augmented by emerging technologies. Values-based individual career and business navigation can thrive and succeed; teams groups and networks can be enhanced with a new mode of innovation based on social conversation and connection rather than a commercial hierarchical and prescriptive process. The authors provide visual models case studies and in-depth interviews with cutting-edge practitioners who provide insights from real-world experience. The Interconnected Individual is intended to help business and professional executives and freelance workers to adopt an entrepreneurial mind-set regardless of field industry or work role.