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Virtual Teams: People Working Across Boundaries With
Technology by
Jessica Lipnack, Jeffrey Stamps; Hardcover |
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Synopsis
How to create and
sustain a virtual organization. This is the definitive book on managing
successful virtual companies. Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps have
popularized the 90/10 rule—ninety percent people and ten percent technology—in
their speeches, consulting, and writing. This Second Edition concentrates on
the importance of focusing first on people and describes how to make virtual
work real. The book updates all examples and cases, adding new ones from
Shell Oil, Motorola, and Pfizer, among others. It also includes access to
Web resources on the authors' own Web site.
From
the Publisher
"Virtual teams and networks-effective, value-based, swiftly
reconfiguring, high-performing, cost-sensitive, and decentralized-will
profoundly reshape our shared world. As members of many virtual groups, we
will all contribute to these ephemeral webs of relationships that together
weave our future."
There are no such things as boundaries in today's work environment.
Virtual teams from all over the world use technologies like the Internet,
intranets, and groupware to work together on projects-but the major drawback
to these teams is their high failure rate. Virtual Teams examines the
numerous problems that arise and provides you with proven techniques to
solve them.
Written by the two leading experts in networked organizations, this
Second Edition shows you how to effectively start, implement, and maintain
virtual teams in your own organization. Lipnack and Stamps present a
comprehensive framework that makes virtual teams accessible and practical,
describing the best practices to use in order to make your group excel.
The authors present the 90/10 Rule, which stresses how a virtual
team's success is based 90% on the people involved and 10% on the technology.
They also take you through the seven steps that every team must complete in
order to achieve their results. These include:
 | Creating a team identity |
| Drafting a mission statement and setting goals |
| Determining milestones and establishing a schedule |
| Identifying team members and their roles |
| Choosing the appropriate media |
Along with the authors' experiences, case studies from Sun Microsystems,
Shell Oil, Pfizer, Motorola, Ernst & Young, and others are integrated
throughout, offering insights from key executives on virtual teams and
adapting to the virtual workplace.
With its in-depth look at this increasingly important way to work,
Virtual Teams, Second Edition gives you the tools you'll need to create
and build a winning virtual team for your own organization.
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Table of
Contents
List of
Illustrations xxi
Introduction xxiii
Why The Way to Work 1
Networks From Tribes to Networks 27
Teams Toward the Twenty-Second Century 47
Trust Virtual Relationships 69
Place Home Is Where the Site Is 93
Time The Virtual Pulse 115
Purpose Why We Work 137
People On the Ice Together 161
Links Being in Touch 187
Launch Do It Yourself 211
Navigate Course Correction for Cyberspace 227
Theory A System Science of Virtual Teams 239
Think Reaching for Possibilities Together 255
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