Reviews
Public Reviews (click on each review listed to go to its website)
Customer Reviews at Amazon.com
The Leadership Sphere (an Australian professional services firm)
Notable Praise (* = on the back cover):
*From Alvin Toffler, futurist and author, Future Shock, The Third Wave, Mindshift, Revolutionary Wealth:
"We first suggested over twenty-five years ago in The Third Wave that the movement of millions of workers from their suburban homes to center cities every morning and back home again at night was one of the most unproductive things we could imagine. Now, in 2007, Corporate Agility's authors show us that more and more organizations are finally learning the virtues and value of "demassifying'" office work. Grantham, Ware, and Williamson describe brilliantly what it takes to make "'work anywhere/anytime' a productive reality."
* From Dan Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind
"On the new landscape of business, only the agile survive. Fortunately we now have a trio of intrepid intellectual explorers to help show us the way. This is a one-of-a-kind book that's packed with advice and insights any businessperson can put to use."
From David Ulrich, Professor of Management, University of Michigan Business School, and Member of the Board of Directors, Herman Miller, Inc.:
"Corporate Agility creatively integrates three disparate disciplines: real estate, human resources, and information technology. The result is a dazzling array of insights into how leaders redefine investments in real estate for the distributed workforce. The productive workplace of the future is not tied to a facility but to collaborate strategic management which integrates ideas, competence, and outcomes into a new mindset for how work is performed. This book offers not only theory and research, but many pragmatic examples of how this future workplace exists today. There is no other book like it; it defines this intellectual space."
* From Colin Dyer, Chief Executive Officer and President of Jones Lang LaSalle:
"In Corporate Agility two acknowledged experts in the field of Workplace Solutions offer an authoritative and well-researched approach to restructuring the work environment to reduce operating expenses, take advantage of emerging technology, and, perhaps most importantly, address the key priority of attracting and retaining talented people."
* From Brian Walker, Chief Executive Officer and President of Herman Miller:
"Corporate Agility is a thoughtful introduction to a systemic, integrated approach to equipping people with the places, tools, and practices they need, not only aligning with but enabling their organizations' strategies. The research results and case studies make a compelling case for thinking differently about the workplace of the future."
* From Judith M. Bardwick, Ph.D., author of Danger in the Comfort Zone and One Foot Out the Door (How to Combat the Psychological Recession That's Alienating Employees and Hurting American Business):
"The authors demonstrate their mastery of current views and issues about work in an engaging, passionately opinionated style that is a great read. This is a particularly valuable book: With a business man's eye on the numbers and an academic's fascination with ideas, fueled by their sense that the future has arrived and American institutions must become much more proactive, they have created a vision and a pragmatic blueprint of the future of work that captures key ideas and experiences across a wide range of professional specialties."
* From John Igoe, Vice President, Commercial Development, REGIS Group of Northern California, L.P. (former Vice President of Facilities and Real Estate Services, Palm Computing):
"The authors have achieved their primary goal in focusing on the workforce as the key element in achieving corporate agility. Assuring the entire environment for the workforce is coordinated with the goals of the company and executed in a cost-effective manner is the role of the IT, CRE and HR departments with the leadership and support of the C Suite. That environment, be it on or off-site, must be the result of a coordinated plan that is constantly reviewed and revised to reflect the changes in the company strategy, technology tools and changes in the work force. The authors have captured the "genie in the bottle" and have displayed great examples of leadership from some of the best and brightest companies in the world. Very easily readable and yet a textbook to be kept within easy reach for very valuable data as well as templates and processes that we can use every day."