I just finished reading "New Business Order", a German book about a change in what employee value, how they want to live their professional lives and careers, and how companies will need to change their management practices to attract these people, and by doing so gain the agility they need to survive the upcoming wave of disruptive innovations that will sweep through traditional industries. I liked the topic, but I wish this book was better. It tells a really important story, and one very important to me, but in my opinion it tells it poorly. So poorly so that for the majority of the book I felt repelled by the content or its presentation, even though I agree with the core of the message. I care about it enough to have written a long-ish review.
One of the key statements of the book is that the "typical employee" is changing, or at least that a significant new group