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Beyond the Office Walls: A Practical Guide for Remote Tech Team Excellence

By Scott J. Pearson | April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

Remote work has been a trend for a long time as Internet technology inundated homes. Working as a developer in health IT, I have often troubleshot issues from home via my laptop for over a decade. Writing software, I’ve interacted with people all over the globe from my kitchen table or personal office for a long time. The recent COVID pandemic forced the wider workplace to catch up with these trends. As the health threat…

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The Future of Work: Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

By Scott J. Pearson | February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

The Coronavirus pandemic provided a great challenge for modern business and introduced new challenges for us all to address. Post-pandemic, business is working through which novelties are good to keep and which to discard. Among these are remote work, artificial intelligence, ESG (environment, social, and governance), and social justice movements (like DEI, or diversity, equity, and inclusion). This book, compiled by Harvard Business Review (HBR), seeks to help business leaders make smarter decisions by understanding…

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The Future of the Office: Work from Home, Remote Work & the Hard Choices We All Face

By Scott J. Pearson | January 27, 2024January 27, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

The COVID pandemic continues to shape the face of the global workforce in 2024. This book, written in the middle of the pandemic in 2021, sought to bring prior research about remote work to the forefront of business leaders. Written by a Wharton School professor, it briefly summarizes earlier studies and speculates on the pandemic’s future business outcomes. Given that it was written in the middle of a global crisis, this work is tightly coupled…

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Remote: Office Not Required

By Scott J. Pearson | January 20, 2024January 20, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

The COVID pandemic forced the global workforce to become used to working from home, and many of us transitioned there permanently. I grew up with my professor-father often working from home in the evenings and trudged through graduate school studying and writing in a home office. Thus, working from home was not entirely new to me. In 2013, when this book was written, this idea was still a relatively fresh management technique, and this short…

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The #PACE Process for Early Career Success

By Scott J. Pearson | April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 by Scott J. Pearson

An individual’s early career often sets the trajectory for future success, for better or for worse. Yet during this time, the path to success is almost universally less clear, and obstacles abound. Young professionals need mentoring and solid advice to advance, but hard-to-access options to get aid can conflict with each other. Now, a post-pandemic climate leaves remote and hybrid work environments where interpersonal interactions are less frequent. In this book, Zides tries to coach…