Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work

Reimagining Collaborationicon

by Phil Simon

Publisher
Racket Publishing
Publication
Jan 01, 2021
Format
Paperback/Softback
Illustrated
No
Dimensions
5.5 x 8.5 in
ISBN
9780982930229
Pages
284
Age
Adult 18+
Category
Business & EconomicsCareerManagement & Leadership

Rights Sold

LanguageRussianCountryWorldwideAgent-BuyerPopuri Ltd.

Description

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by ignorance."" -Hanlon's Razor Over the past five years, organizations adopted Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams in droves. Think of COVID-19 as pouring gasoline on the fire. The pandemic didn't start a trend as much as it accelerated an existing one. Unfortunately, far too many of us mistakenly view these applications as Email 2.0. As a result, we are missing out on extraordinary opportunities to create more collaborative work environments, increase organizational transparency, reduce manual work, make our work lives less stressful, simplify core business processes, and much more. Blame ignorance, not malice. We have lacked a holistic framework to understand the remarkable power of new collaboration technologies, much less unleash them. At least until now. In Reimagining Collaboration, award-winning author and recognized technology expert Phil Simon provides this essential framework. He advances a new, bold, and holistic model of work-one based upon hubs and spokes. No theoretical text, Simon offers concrete tips for companies and groups on how to transform the way they work."

Awards & Endorsements

Award
2021 International Book Award in the Business: Communications/Public Relations category. In addition, the committee selected the book as one of seven finalists in the Business: General category. IndieBrag medallion Winner 1 of 20 titles to Advance to the Booklife Prize Non-Fiction Semifinals.
Review
Winner: International Book Award, Business: Communications/Public Relations

Microsoft 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 exception, organizations, executives, and rank-and-file employees have historically worked in piecemeal fashions. They have lacked a holistic framework to fully understand the remarkable power of these applications, much less unleash them.

At least until now.

Reimagining Collaboration—the eleventh book from award-winning author and world-renowned collaboration expert Phil Simon—provides this essential gestalt. Simon introduces a bold new model of work. Ideal for HR professionals, knowledge workers, executives, remote workers, and small business owners, this timely, ambitious, and provocative book offers concrete tips for companies and groups on how to transform the way they work by embracing hubs and spokes.

Award
Reimagining Collaboration has won the Axiom Silver medal for Business Technology.

Author(s)

Phil Simon

Phil Simon is a frequent keynote speaker, recognized collaboration and technology authority, and college professor-for-hire. He is the award-winning author of eleven books, most recently Reimagining Collaboration: Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and the Post-COVID World of Work. He helps organizations communicate, collaborate, and use technology better. Harvard Business Review, the MIT Sloan Management Review, Wired, NBC, CNBC, BusinessWeek, and The New York Times have featured his contributions. He also hosts the podcast Conversations About Collaboration.

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