Virtual Teams: People Working Across Boundaries with Technology

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John Wiley & Sons, Sep 22, 2008 - Business & Economics - 352 pages
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.

 

Contents

People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 1 WHY THE WAY TO WORK
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 2 NETWORKS FROM TRIBES TO NETWORKS
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 3 TEAMS TOWARD THE TWENTYSECOND CENTURY
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 4 TRUST VIRTUAL RELATIONSHIPS
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 5 PLACE HOME IS WHERE THE SITE IS
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 6 TIME THE VIRTUAL PULSE
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 7 PURPOSE WHY WE WORK
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 8 PEOPLE ON THE ICE TOGETHER
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 10 LAUNCH DO IT YOURSELF
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 11 NAVIGATE COURSE CORRECTION FOR CYBERSPACE
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 12 THEORY A SYSTEM SCIENCE OF VIRTUAL TEAMS
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 13 THINK REACHING FOR POSSIBILITIES TOGETHER
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 14 FUTURE
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition NOTES
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition INDEX
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People Working Across Boundaries with Technology Second Edition CHAPTER 9 LINKS BEING IN TOUCH
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About the author (2008)

JESSICA LIPNACK and JEFFREY STAMPS, PhD, are cofounders and Directors of NetAge Inc., developers of virtualteams.com. They are considered the world's leading experts in virtual teams and networked organizations. For over twenty years, they have lectured, consulted, and been widely published. They have also launched virtual organizations (teams) for Fortune 100 companies, small and medium-sized businesses, nonprofit organizations, and more.

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