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or meet their managers face to face. We will share stories from global
leaders who have taken the risk to unleash their workers from the
chains of daily commutes, nine-to-five business hours, and the same
old cubicles they’ve sat in day after day after day. After day. Millions
of workers have been tied to these kinds of constraints for months,
years, and sometimes decades and now are being given much more
flexibility.
Thought leaders such as Stephen M. R. Covey and Joel Barker
apply principles of leadership thinking to the emerging mobile work-
force in this book; leaders from organizations like Citrix (which offers
the popular GoToMeeting) and Wifi.com, which provide the tools for
enabling effective workforce management, talk about the new world
of telework. We provide research, examples, and tools managers and
employees can use immediately to develop genuine, highly motivating
work and work environments.
This book is the first we know of to do all this:

` Talk about the dichotomous choices leaders have to make
about mobile worker autonomy
` Explore the convergence of e-presence, social presence, and
leadership presence
` Extend the idea of a “platform” beyond technology to include
strategic leadership and workforce practice
` Devote an entire chapter to the relationship between trust
and mobile leadership
` Rethink the sequence of team development for mobile workers
` Provide meta-strategies for efficiently keeping up with the
changing world of technology

` one more reAson to reAd thIs Book

Throughout the book you will find links to mobile exercises and other
information that you can use on your mobile device immediately.