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Excerpt From Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace

Below is an excerpt of my new baby Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace. In it, I set the table for the rest of the book.

Note that a few minor things may change between now and publication. 

You can pre-order the Kindle version of the book on Amazon now. The other versions are coming soon. Really.

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Win a Copy of Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace

The cat is out of the bag. Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace drops in June. To promote the book, I’m giving away a few copies book. Here’s the catch:

You promise to give the book an honest review on your blog/site.You copy and paste that review on Amazon and GoodReads.You promise to do so in a relatively timely manner.You give it a little love on social media.You live in the United States.1

OK … catches. Plural. You got me.

If you’re interested, then fill out the form below and I’ll be in touch.

Fill out my Wufoo form!

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Episode 63: Managing Multiple Projects With Elizabeth Harrin

Elizabeth Harrin joins me today. We discuss her new book Managing Multiple Projects, sushi, spaghetti, side dishes, productivity, timeboxing, and more. I had a blast on this one.

 

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Pre-Order Signed Copies of Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace

The Kindle edition of Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace is now up for pre-order, but not the physical book.

As far as I know, there’s no easy way to offer signed copies of a book on Amazon or other sites for pre-order, so we’ll go old school.

If you’d like a copy—or ten—of my new opus, have at it below. Note that it might take a few extra days to get you the books. That is, they may not arrive on June 15, 2022.

When you check out, please include your address. If you live outside of the US, shoot me a note and I can get you a price for international shipments.

Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace

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Announcing My 12th Book

I have been pretty quiet on the podcasting and blogging fronts lately—and for good reason.

Yep, I’ve written another book.

Here’s some more information about my forthcoming opus.

🥁

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 workplaces are here to stay, and they pose formidable obstacles that complicate managing projects and launching new products.

Against this backdrop arrives Project Management for the Hybrid Workplace, my timely and highly anticipated follow-up to my award-winning book Reimagining Collaboration.

In the new book, I fuse critical research and concepts from a slew of diverse and seemingly unrelated fields, including Agile software development, human resources, supply chain management, organizational behavior, cognitive psychology, and labor economics. Brimming with detailed case studies, penetrating insights, and practical advice, my twelfth book is a tour de force. Product owners, new and seasoned PMs, service providers, freelancers, small business owners, and students taking PM classes will benefit from Project Management in the Hybrid Workplace.

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Book Information

Publication Date: June 15, 2022.

Formats: Paperback, audiobook, and ebook.

Estimated page length: 288 pages.

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Episode 62: Reimagining the Office With Sabine Ehm of Locatee

Sabine Ehm joins me today. She’s a research manager at Locatee. We talk about the future of the office, how much space companies need, ideal configurations, sensors, The Reset, privacy, and a bunch of other topical stuff.

  

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Episode 61: Becoming Superhuman With Lucas Miller

Lucas Miller joins me today. Like me, he wears quite a few hats. The cognitive scientist teaches at UC Berkeley and researches productivity. We talk about technology, how we’re wired, his work at Becoming Superhuman, his upcoming class at Section4, and cuddle hormones.

  

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Episode 60: Collective Deep Work With Dr. Laura Giurge

Dr. Laura Giurge joins me today. She is an organizational scholar, speaker, and consultant. We explore the importance of deadlines and clarity, the curse of off-hours e-mail, the egocentric bias, task urgency, accountability, and the notion of pre-mortems.

  

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Episode 59: Suddenly Hybrid With Karin Reed

My friend Karin Reed is my first return guest. (I suppose that I didn’t offend her too much last time.) We talk about her new book Suddenly Hybrid: Managing the Modern Meeting, HR, the future of the office, user interfaces, employee training, and Succession.

  

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Adios, Spotify.

I proudly stand with Joni Mitchell and Neil Young. As of today, you can no longer find Conversations About Collaboration on the world’s most popular podcast services—er, “platform.”1 (We’ll see how long the company continues to hold that distinction. The word tenuous comes to mind.)

Platform Perversion

I call bullshit on CEO Daniel Ek’s claim that Spotify is sometimes a platform and other times a publisher. In the immortal words of The Church Lady, how convenient.

Sorry, Danny. It doesn’t work that way.

When you pay $100,000,000 to someone for exclusive publication rights, the idea that your company remains a neutral platform is freakin’ absurd. (As the author of The Age of the Platform, I feel particularly qualified to render judgment here.) Your company is a publisher. Big difference, dude.

Hey, at least he’s not alone in practicing platform perversion.

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Will my humble actions alone hurt Spotify’s business? I’m no fool. If enough people follow suit, then its stock will continue to tumble.

Call it cancel culture if you like, but isn’t voting with our wallets the ultimate expression of capitalism? My doppelgänger Scott Galloway sure thinks so.

I’m no activist, but I’ve taken principled stands before that have most likely hurt my business. In 2017, I deleted my Facebook account. (I only wish that I had done so sooner.) Better to burn out than to fade away, right?

Simon Says

The right to free speech isn’t absolute. Clean up Spotify’s act, Ek. Your “platform” is causing a great deal of harm.

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