Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload - Hardcover

Hobsbawm, Julia

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9781472926845: Fully Connected: Surviving and Thriving in an Age of Overload

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ISBN 10: 1472926846 ISBN 13: 9781472926845

Publisher: Bloomsbury Business, 2017

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In 1946, the World Health Organization defined health as: "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Until now, no one has defined this third dimension to health, or described strategies to deliver it. This ground-breaking book is the first to do so.

Twenty-five years after the arrival of the Internet, we are drowning in data and deadlines; we can never have imagined that our daily intake of information and achieving a healthy balance in our personal and professional lives could feel so complex and so unhealthy. In recent years, organizations have come a long way towards promoting health literacy (on obesity, smoking, diet, and exercise) and some way in acknowledging mental health issues. But acknowledging the challenges of the Internet and social media on employee and workplace health is the social element, and most have not yet begun to offer solutions around either better information and knowledge management, or developing better and more sustaining relationships.

The challenges, threats, and opportunities of a "perma-connected" global economy and society could not be greater-and they will only increase. This is the first book to define what social health means in both society and the modern workplace. Here, Julia Hobsbawm argues that developing social health will help employees become more efficiently engaged with each other and their work, and help employers to create workplaces that support social health and thus greater productivity.

By utilizing the latest thinking in health and behavioral economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management, and social network analysis, Fully Connected will provide a blueprint for how to use social health to foster well-being and productivity.

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About the Author:

Julia Hobsbawm OBE is a leading expert on connectedness in modern life. A prominent entrepreneur, media commentator and international speaker for corporate audiences, she has emerged as a leading voice on the future of workplace productivity practices, particularly around Social Health, and how scientific network patterns underpin much of what we do on a daily basis. She became the world's first Professor in Networking in 2011 and is Hon Visiting Professor at Cass Business School in London and at the University of Suffolk. She was awarded an OBE in The Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2015.

Review:

"[Hobsbawm's] detail-rich writing is strong and convincing; this is more of a meditation on connectedness than a prescriptive approach to achieving it, but Hobsbawm’s thoughtful exploration is refreshingly low on tech panic and high on insight." - Publishers Weekly

"I thoroughly enjoyed Fully Connected. Amazing insights on a subject critical to modern working and living. I wholly endorse it, not just as a must-read but also as a much-needed compass to navigating the 21st century workplace." - Dambisa Moyo, Economist and Author

"Julia Hobsbawm is the unofficial UK Queen of Networking, but she understands that networking is about much more than lunches and parties. As a student of networks in history, I read Fully Connected with great pleasure and profit." - Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

"Brimming with ideas and insights – fascinating, intriguing, thoughtful." - Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School

"I am buzzing about this book. Really outstanding." - William Eccleshare, President and CEO, Clear Channel International

"This is one of those brilliantly insightful books everyone has to read to understand the zeitgeist." - Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, Principal, Mansfield College Oxford

"Fully Connected is the most profound book about connectivity published this century. Hobsbawm nails it. She's the Marshall McLuhan of our always-on age." - Andrew Keen, author of 'Digital Vertigo' and 'The Internet is Not The Answer'

"Julia Hobsbawm reminds us that social media and social networks are about human connections not technology. She wants us to see that stilling the shrill voices of tech will connect us better. Fully Connected is a very good read." - Stephan Chambers, The Marshall Institute, London School of Economics

"Julia Hobsbawm's potent mix of practical advice and fresh academic insight is the book for any thoughtful executive, hard-pressed or otherwise." - Stephen Barber, Equity partner, Pictet Group; Global Chair, Prix Pictet

"A great read, which provides fascinating insights into how connectivity is changing our lives and how we can thrive in a Fully Connected world." - Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford

"Our social networks are both huge opportunities and lurking dangers, depending on how we manage them. Julia Hobsbawm’s stellar new book, Fully Connected, pinpoints their pervasive effects on what and who we know, what jobs we get, our political views, our health and wellbeing, and more – and then tells us to improve our social health. A must-read for individuals and policy makers alike." - Professor Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD

"Explaining her ideas through stories from the news and her personal experiences, Hobsbawm poses that individuals must be connected, without being overconnected, to many layers of community. Managing our connectedness is the key to our unique social health. While the author does include some advice on this management, her focus is on helping her readers comprehend their own situations." - Rick Roche, Booklist

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