num_pages: 256
description: Porchlights Management and Workplace Culture Book of The YearA provocative exciting and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork. Walter Isaacson Team Human is a manifestoa fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoffs most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements he argues that we are essentially social creatures and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work togethernot as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money once a means of exchange is now a means of exploitation; education conceived as way to elevate the working class has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomized and radicalized groups. Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces we must recognize that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoffs own words: Being social may be the whole point. Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution biology and psychology Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realize greater happiness productivity and peace. If we can find the others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanitytogetherwe can make the world a better place to be human.
language: English
title: Team Human
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company