Work Naked: Eight Essential Principles for Peak Performance in the Virtual Workplace
Work Naked: Eight Essential Principles for Peak Performance in the Virtual Workplace
Cynthia C. FroggattJossey-BassISBN 0-7879-5390-3£17.95
This book suggests that traditional – and typical – organisational structures and working practices actively prevent staff from giving of their best. The author argues that staff should be liberated from the burdens and overheads of standard hierarchies and, instead, supported in their endeavours by flexible working.
Eight chapters build an argument around eight key principles: initiative,trust, joy, individuality, equality, dialogue, connectivity and workplace options.
This is not an academic book, and it fails to acknowledge or draw upon(explicitly) the work that has gone on in this area in the past, by both academics and practitioners. Since it is not academic, it is a little disappointing not to have more in the way of practical case examples to underline the essential message.
The arguments in the book are interesting – and there is a kind of "instinctive truth" in much that is contained here. Thus, this book may best be regarded as a contribution to a general "movement" rather than as a definitive statement. This is not to belittle the book – it is always interesting, and that in itself makes it commendable!
