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Making Telework Work: Leading People and Leveraging Technology for High-Impact Results

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Forward planning all has to do with a single word: Leadership. The ability to realize the potential in people, organizations, and technologies through coordinated efforts harnessing the latent properties of these potentials, while producing scalable, as well as saleable, products and services to benefit both the public and private sectors.

In "Making Telework Work", Evan and Jason clarified what happens to an organization in the absence of thoughtful leadership - the confused mêlées we have witnessed within both the public and private sectors, most of which could be avoided by leaders of character, who possess the foresight and willingness to evolve to the next level of excellence within their organizations.

Telework is more about policies, processes, and procedures (P³) than it is about the technologies that keep getting better, faster, cheaper, and easier to use. We can no longer afford the consequences of the failures to innovate and reformulate the workplace.

If you are looking to improve your organization's performance, accomplish stated objectives, and provide useful services in an often chaotic world, this book and Work@Home(tm) is for you.

Well done, Evan and Jason!

J. Heacock
The Telework Coalition
Washington, D.C.
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Messrs. Offstein and Morwick have served up an extremely useful guide on the nuts and bolts of planning for, implementing, and getting the most out of an organizational telework program. The most basic premise of the tome, that a good telework program if a function of strong, hands-on leadership, resonates extremely well and contradicts a basic myth that telework is all about technical issues.

They offer a multitude of excellent, real-world examples of telework programs failing and succeeding. The book also lays down concrete principles and ready-to-use precepts of success, as well as common pitfalls and traps in telework programs. The arguments and practices they espouse can be applied at firms large and small, public or private, contained with a small geographic area or spread out globally. Most of the books wasting space on the shelf at your local mega-book seller aren't worth the paper they are printed on. But "Telework" from Offstein and Morwick will certainly be worth your money and your time.