Unbook update

My unbook, Working Smarter: Boosting Brainpower for Fun & Profit, is now on sale at Amazon for $14.

This is a book for business managers about applying common sense to the task of building workforces that improve performance naturally, without prodding. It’s about eliminating training bureaucracy that has failed to keep pace with the times. It’s a new way of looking at how people become competent in their work and fulfilled in their professional lives.

In the network era, brains replace brawn, and most work evolves into knowledge work. Using your brain(s) effectively becomes the key to prosperity and the ultimate corporate survival skill. This book advocates investing in brainpower in ways that demonstrably improve organizational performance.

Pragmatic and grounded in experience, this is a re-think of how upgrading an organization’s brains can increase profits, spur innovation, and help businesses prosper.

In today’s volatile, unpredictable times, brainpower and collective intelligence are the keys to corporate responsiveness and survival. While learning is ascendant, training is in decline, for workers are embracing self-service learning; they learn in the context of work, not at some training event divorced from work.

This is an unbook. Among other things, that means it’s unfinished. It will never be finished. Unbooks are always in beta, ready to get better.

My pal Dave Gray hung out with me here at Internet Time Studio the first few days of this week. We are the prime movers in the unbook movement and when I return from Europe, I’ll post a video of our discussion about where unbooks are headed. In the meantime, you might want to visit the unbook website.