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Last week the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) released The Human Cloud, the Gig Economy & the Transformation of Work. It nicely covers the topics mentioned in the report title. Key quote from the report on the size of the "human cloud": "SIA estimates that total human cloud spending reached between $47 and $51 billion globally in 2016.
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This post is mainly the video below where I speak to a simple concept. It's not something that I learned over the last week, but something that was exemplified through practice and highlighted from the success I had from it. Whatever you're after or looking for in business and life, you'll have an easier time if you get someone's help. What do you do then when for your work, in your sales process, you need someone else to cooperate with you?
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