{"product_id":"0828766928822","title":"Dave Matthews: Stand Up [DualDisc]","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the global marketplace, people can work practically anywhere and anytime. \u003ci\u003eManaging the Mobile Workforce\u003c\/i\u003e shares stories about organizations that have taken the risk to unleash—literally—their workers from the chains of daily commutes, 9-to-5 business hours, and the same old cubicles they have sat in day after day, year after year, and even decade after decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Clemons, an entrepreneur within the enterprise mobile and online training industry, and Michael Kroth, an expert and author on how leaders can create highly motivating work environments, together deliver rock-solid guidance on the essentials for building, leading, and sustaining a highly productive virtual workforce. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClemons and Kroth present the real-life relationships between managers and employees through interviews of thought leaders and executives that will engage your thinking about how the right leadership, combined with technology, can make all the difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e,Tools, tips, and strategies for hiring, training, supporting, and motivating the modern mobile workforce\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIDC has estimated that mobile workers worldwide will surpass one billion by 2011. This isn't just a trend, but the direction that business is heading. \u003ci\u003eManaging the Mobile Workforce\u003c\/i\u003e gives managers and executives at all levels key essentials for coping with this new reality, empowering them to create, sustain, support, and reward a highly passionate and productive mobile work force. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eManaging the Mobile Workforce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eShares startling facts and figures indicating how many workers already are and will be working \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplains why trust is the glue that binds managers and workers together across vast distances—and how to achieve it\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides strategies to manage performance in a virtual world—and why mobility can actually increase productivity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReveals how technology and great leadership can reduce the virtual distance between you and your mobile workers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGives eight motivational principles and tools for mobile leaders\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuggests a new way of looking at the virtual team development process\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eStories from top execs at Samsung, Deloitte LLP, Hewlett-Packard, LEGO, and the Federal Office of Personnel Management, along with thought leaders like Joel Barker and Stephen M. R. Covey and other key industry experts will show you how the mobile workforce is changing the very landscape of business—and what you can do starting today to recreate their successes in your own organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Clemons has provided 20 years of executive leadership and innovation to the digital education industries. Today, as the CEO of Achieve Labs Inc., David is speaking nationally and internationally within the mobile industry. David lives in Eagle, Idaho, as a true mobile worker and employs a large \"mobiForce,\" including international partners and content specialists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Kroth, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the University of Idaho in Adult\/Organizational Learning and Leadership. He has authored \u003ci\u003eTransforming Work: The Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment, and Passion in the Workplace\u003c\/i\u003e (2001), co-authored with Patricia Boverie; \u003ci\u003eThe Manager as Motivator\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and \u003ci\u003eCareer Development Basics\u003c\/i\u003e (2009) with McKay Christensen. He is a memeber of the National Speaks Association and speaks nationally and internationally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLearn more about this book and David and Michael's work at www.managingthemobileworkforce.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT***","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095581540592,"sku":"0828766928822","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/0828766928822_p0.jpg?v=1763528793","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/0828766928822","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}