Here is a review by Brian Sommer of the book I wrote in early 2008 about an increasingly project-based workforce and how companies have to deal with the challenge of managing dispersed customers, projects and teams operating in multiple time zones and under various compliance and regulatory requirements. Here are a few excepts:

"The book’s title is a bit of a misnomer. As the three parts of the books indicate, this book is about more than the changes driving an increase or rise of a project-based work world. The book has less of an intellectual feel (a la Friedman’s The World is Flat) and more of a practical purpose. This is a book for practitioners."

"I’ve read a number of books re: professional services and project management. Each was focused on a single aspect (e.g., selling services, history of the space, etc.). This is the first I have read around the automation that service organizations need. Who should read this? My guess is that the best candidates are leaders of service groups specifically those who are newer to the role or have recently parachuted into a new firm with stated goals to becoming a better services group."

http://blogs.zdnet.com/sommer/?p=236