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Tomorrow's work forecast

USA TODAY,  April, 2004  by Bruce Rosenstein

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The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life

By Thomas W. Malone

Harvard Business School Press, 225 pages, $29.95

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Thomas W. Malone's briskly written, insightful The Future of Work sketches out what your work life may be like in the near future, whether you are ready or not.

Malone is a management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining MIT in 1983, he was a research scientist at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

Many of the ideas in his book are based on research from two entities he helped found and guide: the MIT Center for Coordination Science and the MIT initiative, Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century. He does not engage in crystal-ball gazing. He extrapolates from historical patterns and trends in the present world of business to discover ...