Virtual Teams
People Working Across Boundaries with Technology
2. Edition September 2000
XXXIV, 318 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Virtual Teams, Second Edition emphasizes the importance of focusing first on people rather than technology when trying to make a virtual workplace happen. Successful virtual companies observe the "The 90/10 Rule. " It's 90% people and 10% technology. Along with focusing on the 90/10 theme, the authors have updated all examples and cases, adding new ones from Shell Oil, SCIENTECH, Ernst and Young, United Nations Development Program, Verifone and Palm Pilot.
Praise for the First Edition of Virtual Teams
"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.
Networks: From Tribes to Networks.
Teams: Toward the Twenty-Second Century.
Trust: Virtual Relationships.
Place: Home Is Where the Site Is.
Time: The Virtual Pulse.
Purpose: Why We Work.
People: On the Ice Together.
Links: Being in Touch.
Launch: Do It Yourself.
Navigate: Course Correction for Cyberspace.
Theory: A System Science of Virtual Teams.
Think: Reaching for Possibilities Together.
Future.
Notes.
About the Authors.
Index.