Title

Free agent nation : how America's new independent workers are transforming the way we live

Description

Daniel Pink's work about self-employed Americans.

Identifier

1119711

446525235

Creator

Pink, Daniel H

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2001

Program air date: November 18, 2001

Publisher

Warner Books

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Subject

"Self-employed--United States."

"Entrepreneurship--United States."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

Rights

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Transcription of Annotations
Notes from front endpapers: "What was the Organization Man? Who is Grandma Betty? - What was your online census? - Where did you travel? - Vomiting story with VP; 3 weeks later left job. - Wanted to be deputized by Census Director. - My wife / daughter traveled nation for 1 1/2 years to study Free Agentism / plus new 2nd daughter. - Speech writer for Robert Reich. - From Tom Rath to Jerry McGuire - what's the story - from Organization Man to Free Agent Nation, p. 62? - Abraham Maslow - b. 1908 - what was his thesis? - 1956: William Whyte: 7 months best seller; what was the Organization Man? When did it change? - Frederick Winslow Taylor - Taylorism - theory preached repetition, rote routines, standardization - one way. - What did you find in Seattle - at Microsoft? Where did you travel - when - who went with you?" -- Notes from back endpapers: "E-tirement - politicians will like it. - What's the new economy? - Healthcare - new politics. - 401K - defined contribution plan. - Get rid of corporate welfare. - (IVAs) - Individual Employment Accounts. - Party affiliation is waning. - Clinton was a master of just in time politics. - Most managers are toast. - Women are shaping free agentry in many ways. - Homeschooling. - 46 % of college students are older than 25; 78 % of 4 year public colleges offer distance learning. - You like the Millionaire Mind by Thomas J. Stanley." - Annotations by Brian Lamb in the margins and underlining of pertinent phrases throughout the book. -- Examples: p. 67: "A Johns Hopkins study found that workers with little autonomy are 70 percent more likely to die from heart disease than workers with significant control of their work." - p. 116: "Americans work 350 hours more per year than Europeans - and seventy hours more per year than even the Japanese, whose language contains a word, karoshi, that means "death from overwork"." - p. 299: "More than twice as many Americans now consider big business a greater threat to the country than big labor, according to a Gallup Poll."