AJO Blog

Our world is becoming increasingly inter-connected as work is performed across time and geographical boundaries. Organizations are becoming more diverse, culturally, ethnically, and through what will soon be five generations in the workforce. Organizational leaders are learning that to be successful, they have to achieve results across diverse countries, cultures and generations. And yet a 2009 study by Ernst & Young, "Redrawing the map: globalization and the changing world of business" revealed that the boards of many global companies lack the diversity to deal with intercultural challenges.

In their new book, Future Work, Alison Maitland and Peter Thomson argue that a revolution is taking place in the way we work and some CEOs have embraced the new way of working within their organizations. Maitland suggests in an article just published in the Fall 2011 Conference Board Review that “9 to 5 is so last century”.