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Phil Simon

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The Future of Work

As COVID has receded, companies such as Apple, Amazon, Google, Salesforce, and Twitter have severely restricted or even eliminated remote work. Ditto for countless, less iconic firms and small businesses. At a high level, executives and managers at these organizations are trying to turn back the clock to 2019.There's just one problem, though: For a bevy of reasons, they won't succeed.In many ways, the workplace of 2023 already differs from its pre-pandemic counterp...

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Phil Simon

For decades, our relationship with workplace technology has been, in a word, complicated. The pandemic only made it more so.The stats are astonishing. Two in three employers cannot find qualified candidates to fill their open IT positions. By 2024, the deficit of software developers in the US alone will hit 500,000. Supply and demand for techies are out of whack and, most alarmingly, there's no end in sight.The effects of this labor market imbalance are profound an...

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Phil Simon

Winner: International Book Award, Business: Communications/Public RelationsMicrosoft Teams. Slack. Zoom. Google Workspace.Every day, hundreds of millions of people use these über-popular collaboration tools, but only in decidedly limited ways: as email and Skype replacements. Because these folks are merely scratching the surface of what these robust collaboration hubs can do, they fail to realize their massive benefits.Blame ignorance, not malice. With rare exceptio...

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Phil Simon

Get your message across the right way with clear communicationMessage Not Received provides the tools and techniques that make an effective writer and public speaker. Particularly on topics related to data and technology, effective communication can present a challenge in business settings. This book shows readers how those challenges can be overcome, and how to keep the message from getting lost in the face of mismatched levels of knowledge, various deliv...

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Phil Simon

For decades, organizations of all sizes and in all industries have struggled at managing projects. Even though employees primarily worked together in physical offices, rare was the project that came in on time and on budget and delivered what stakeholders expected.The M-F/9-5 in-person world of work is gone forever. Depending on the country, more than nine in ten people would rather quit their jobs than return to the office five days per week. Brass tacks: Remote and hybrid workpla...

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Phil Simon

Zoom into the new world of remote collaborationWhile a worldwide pandemic may have started the Zoom revolution, the convenience of remote meetings is here to stay. Zoom For Dummies takes you from creating meetings on the platform to running global webinars. Along the way you'll learn how to expand your remote collaboration options, record meetings for future review, and even make scheduling a meeting through your other apps a one-click process. Take in all...

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Simon Flaherty, Phil Andrews, Matt Leivers

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Wessex Archaeology Occasional Paper

Excavations in advance of housing development at Longforth Farm, Wellington revealed limited evidence for late prehistoric settlement, but the principal discovery was the remains of a previously unknown high status medieval building complex. This is thought to have been a manor house and though heavily robbed, key elements identified include a hall, solar with garderobe and service wing. A forecourt lay to the north and a service yard with at least one ancillary building and a possible det...

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Phil Simon

Buoyed by the success of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, thousands of companies of all sizes are fundamentally rethinking how they do business. They are creating vibrant ecosystems and, in the process, reaping big rewards. In the tradition of The Long Tail, The Age of the Platform demonstrates how the world of business today is vastly different from that of even ten years ago. Today, the most successful companies are operating under an entirely different business model—one predicated ...

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Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, Yuri Rasovsky, John Baker, Steven Ovitsky, Tony Barrand, John Roberts

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a full cast, Robertson Dean, Martin Jarvis, Moira Quirk, Simon Templeman, Phil Proctor, Rosalind Ayres, W. Morgan Sheppard

The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of customers. To dispose of their remains, he carried them to an underground bakery of one Mrs. Lovett...

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Phil Simon

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Digital Voice Sarah - Mature, Reassuring, Confident E

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The Future of Work

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice."The practical, persuasive case for empowering employees to develop custom apps in the workplace."—Publishers Weekly BookLife ReviewFor decades, our relationship with workplace technology has been, in a word, complicated. The pandemic only made it more so.The stats are astonishing. Two in three employers can’t find qualified candidates to fill their open IT positions. By 2024, th...

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Phil Simon

Your all-inclusive guide to all the latest technologiesProviding you with a better understanding of the latest technologies, including Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Mobile Computing, Social Networking, and Business Intelligence, The Next Wave of Technologies: Opportunities in Chaos helps you know which questions to ask when considering if a specific technology is right for your organization.

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Phil Simon

A small seafood restaurant attracts new customers with virtually no marketing budget. An iPad case manufacturer generates more than $1M in revenue in four months with only four employees. A voiceover company is able to connect thousands of artists with opportunities, all without expensive hardware and software. A law firm increases access to key information while dramatically reducing technology-related costs and risks. And these four companies are hardly unique. A new breed of small busin...