Virtual Teams People Working Across Boundaries with Technology [Hardcover]

If you want to see where organizational communications are going in the future, heed what these pioneers have written today.
—Howard Rheingold, author, The Virtual Community, and founder, Electric Mind

Lipnack and Stamps have written an important book for the twenty-first-century corporation.
—Regis McKenna, The McKenna Group, author, Relationship Marketing

This book provides a long overdue perspective on how to apply the discipline of real teams in the fast-moving, increasingly dispersed information age of the future.
—Jon R. Katzenbach, author, The Wisdom of Teams

For those who want to lead the movement, catch up with it, or simply know where it is going, this book is packed with useful information and interesting stories.
—Dee W. Hock, founder and chairman emeritus, VISA

Virtual Teams provides valuable insights into global teamwork and management through network technologies now available to all companies, large or small.
—Jim Lynch, director, corporate quality, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

List of Illustrations xxi

Introduction xxiii

Chapter 1 Why 1

The Way to Work

Shapeshifters 2

eSun 8

How It Feels 11

The Virtue of Virtual 15

Growth 22

Chapter 2 Networks 27

From Tribes to Networks

It’s Official 27

The Networked Community 28

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