Brynne Kennedy - Flat, Fluid, and Fast

Workers today are more mobile than everwhether theyre telecommuting from a kitchen table or relocating to another continent. How can you support these folks while ensuring you have the talent you need, where you need it, when you need it? Flat, Fluid and Fast has the answers. This incisive book explores the meaning of talent mobility, outlines the challenges you will face as a team leader with mobile employees, and provides an essential map for navigating the modern workplace.

DANIEL H. PINK, author of When, Drive and To Sell isHuman

There are major forces changing the nature of work today that business leaders confront every day. In Flat, Fluid and Fast, Kennedy tells leaders how to take advantage of the talent mobility revolution to successfully navigate the future of work, support workers through transitions and build talent strategies that attract, retain and engage workers. Every business and talent leader must read it!

DAMON BERKHAUG, Global Head of Talent Acquisition, LAM Research

Kennedy provides a powerful book on how businesses, careers and teams are changing amid disruptions and new generations in the workplace. Flat, Fluid and Fast tells us how these forces can help create opportunities for businesses, workers and the economy as a whole. It is a must-read for anyone interested in how to grow jobs and create policies to support the new world of work.

STEPHANE KASRIEL, CEO of Upwork, the worlds largest freelancing website, and World Economic Forum Co-Chair, Global Futures Council on the New Social Contract

The future of work will increasingly involve humans collaborating with other humans to design work for machines. In Flat, Fluid and Fast, Brynne Kennedy provides a practical, insightful and well-informed guide for leveraging the mobility revolution to create a more connected, motivated and effective workforce. Its a must read for every inspiring leader!

GREG SATELL, author of Cascades and Mapping Innovation

The talent mobility revolution is changing almost everything about the way we attract, retain and engage workers. Flat, Fluid and Fast takes the reader on an innovative, eye-opening journey to learn how savvy business leaders are successfully navigating the Future of Work.

PEGGY SMITH, President and CEO, Worldwide ERC, a trade body that educates and connects more than 250,000 corporations, thought leaders, learners and mobile people

Flat, Fluid and Fast is an important and insightful read that explores both the history of people development inside of companies, and also how this is changing in revolutionary ways. Kennedy provides a set of tools and way of thinking that are indispensable in a world of rapid technical and sociological change.

ROB SIEGEL, Lecturer in Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Global talent mobility is now a hallmark of high-performing organizations. Brynnes book is a wonderful overview of this critical area, filled with important best-practices for every organization.

JOSH BERSIN, Global Industry Analyst

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For my mother, Katherine. Thank you for showing me tenacity, empathy, and altruismin business and life. You are my inspiration.

For Team Topia. To colleagues, customers, investors, and partners, thank you for opening my eyes to the future of work and for the privilege of building a company with you.