Free Agent Nation (2001) (edit title/settings)

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Characters/People edit see section history

• Jim: Add a description of this character.
• Abraham Maslow
• Richard
• Jerry Maguire
• Althea
• Toni
• Fred
• Tom Rath
• Stoehr
• Sally
• Spencer
• Theresa Fitzgerald
• Horowitz
• Delulio
• Weis
• Sophie
• Clinton
• Gruber
• Andersen
• Tobiason
• Blain
• Frucci
• Benson
• Hansen
• Mr. Robinson

Quotes edit see section history

• “Free agents know where they stand. A client asks for a project. The free agents bids $10,000. The client says the job is worth only $7,000. That's feedback.”

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• “work requiring great skills that is done freely refines the complexity of the self ”—but that few things in life are more deadening than “unskilled work done under compulsion.”

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• “Job diversity” is essential because “job security” has evaporated.

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• “Work today,” says business über-guru Tom Peters, “is about two things: talent and projects.”

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• The free agent gives talent in exchange for opportunity.

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• “A man is a success,” Dylan sang, “if he gets up in the morning and does what he wants to do.”

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• The question, then, is how this new workforce makes meaning. The answer is by assembling four pieces—freedom, authenticity, accountability, and self-defined success—that together comprise a new free agent work ethic.

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• In Maslow’s America, one of the surest ways to crush somebody’s job satisfaction, particularly creative and technical types, is to promote them.

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• Talent assembles in a specific place for a specific purpose—and when the mission is complete, this makeshift organization disassembles and its individual units move to the next gig.

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• Working hard for a far-off reward is often a valuable exercise, but the act of work itself should produce its own intrinsic rewards. And since no position is permanent—but other positions are usually available and destitution is not around the bend—you might as well enjoy what you do. Produce quality work that’s a genuine reflection of who you are. Use your freedom to accept responsibility for your work. Decide for yourself what constitutes success. And if you’re not having fun—at least some of the time—you’re doing something wrong.

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• The Organization Man. The title marched into our national vocabulary. The label described what was then the quintessence of work in America: an individual, almost always male, who ignored or buried his own identity and goals in the service of a large organization, which rewarded his self-denial with a regular paycheck, the promise of job security, and a fixed place in the world.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• America
• California
• New York
• San Francisco
• Silicon Valley
• Seattle
• Chicago
• Washington
• New Jersey
• Hollywood
• Texas
• United States
• Minneapolis
• Los Angeles
• D.c.
• Ohio
• Dallas
• Austin
• Burbank
• Connecticut
• Manhattan
• New Deal

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Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Daniel H. Pink (Author)

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• Dewey: 331.25

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Business & Investing › Industries & Professions › Human Resources & Personnel Management
• Books › Business & Investing › Industries & Professions › Consulting
• Books › Business & Investing › Small Business & Entrepreneurship › Entrepreneurship
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics › U.S.
• Books › Nonfiction › Politics › Labor & Industrial Relations
• Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Theory
• Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Labor & Industrial Relations

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