Flash Teams: Leading the Future of AI-Enhanced, On-Demand Work

A dramatic new future of work in which managers assemble exactly the expertise they need within minutes. Gone are the days of static organizational charts and staffing based on the manager s rolodex and intuition.Now you can recruit any expertise you need from a global online network within minutes: an on-demand, on-the-spot expert at the exact moment that you need their help.You can right-size their involvement, too; some of those experts give a second opinion or a moment of brainstorming, whereas others join as full-fledged team members for a sustained collaborative effort. This is the future promised by Flash Teams, a model that The New York Times has already praised for its 'revolutionary potential': a world where experts are available anytime and everywhere, where remote work has become a norm, and where AI is in the loop to guide team decisions.In Flash Teams, award-winning management scholar Melissa Valentine and computer scientist Michael Bernstein chart the opportunities of fl