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"Finally, the definitive user′s guide for everyone who has ever managed a virtual team: clear, practical, concise, easy to read, and complete. It takes leading virtual teams to the next level by driving results through productivity and collaboration. A must–read for every professional who hopes to be a global manager in the twenty–first century."––Peter Giulioni, executive director, Keenan MBA Career Resource Center, USC Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
“This handbook is essential reading for anyone responsible for starting or making virtual teams more effective. It provides the information you need about structure, leadership, the importance of trust, crossing cultural barriers, and much more.”––William C. Byham, Ph.D., chairman and CEO, Development Dimensions International, Inc.
“Leaders, managers, and team members everywhere need to learn from the best how to cultivate high performance from virtual teams, and all the frameworks to do so are in this book, served up with the wisdom of the sages of virtual teams."––Michael Sampson, effective collaboration advisor and author, The Michael Sampson Company Limited
"This book is critical reading for leaders and practitioners facing the global virtual work environment. It provides exceptional insight into virtual teaming, which is a key to producing profound business results."––Ed Schaniel, IDS Director of Employee Involvement and Lean Integration, The Boeing Company
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The Handbook of High–Performance Virtual Teams is an essential resource for leaders, virtual team members, and work group leaders. The editors provide a proved framework based on five principles for working collaboratively across boundaries of time, space, and culture. Written by experts in the field, the contributors offer practical suggestions and tools for virtual team who need to assess their current level of effectiveness and develop strategies for improvement. This important resource also contains an array of illustrative cases as well as practical tools for designing, implementing, and maintaining effective virtual work.
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Why do handbooks have to be handbricks?, 22 Mar 2009
By Jan Husdal - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries (Hardcover)
Knowledge-laden and heavy
This is not a handbook, this is a 764-page handbrick. It is a true monster of a book and I mean that in a positive way. I cannot imagine anything that is left uncovered on the topic of virtual teams. Which perhaps makes it rather difficult to keep the necessary distance and oversight, the index alone is some 47 pages long.
The esssence
What is comes down to is that virtual teams have six challenges: Distance, Time, Technology, Culture, Trust and Leadership. These six challenges are presented in 28 contributions from different authors, where each contribution takes on one or more of these challenges. Luckily the book comes with a matrix, so if you want to read about Time, you can read contribution 1, 14, 19, 25 and 28. And so on for the other challenges. That is very helpful.
So what is it about?
Distance means working without face-to-face contact, resulting in lack of personal bonding. Time means the challenges from working in different time zones, often globally, and the advantages of 24/7 production versus the disadvantage of no real-time collaboration. Technology deals with the challenges of compatible and incompatible ICT and how to make the team members make the best out of their tools. Culture has to do with the challenges arising from teaming different cultures, especially if your team is global. Trust is usually slow to develop without personal contact, another challenge when you only meet in virtuality. Leadership tells how virtual team leaders must fill many roles and develop different skills than traditional team leaders.
Could it not be shorter?
Is it a bit overdone? Why not simply six chapters for the six challenges? Well, the individual contributions are valuable, and I can tell that, having read some of them. The authors all bring their personal insights into their subjects, and I guess, if you want to focus on the challenges of technology in your virtual team, it is helpful to have a couple of opinions, not just one.
The verdict
Still, reading this book from cover to cover is a daunting task, and not something I am likely to undertake. Nonetheless, I think it is one of the best books on virtual teams currently on the market.
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Great Book for Research or Papers, 4 Jan 2010
By M. Gofberg "college student on a budget" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries (Hardcover)
This definitely isn't like reading. It's a pretty heavy text and very dense to read through. I think that it's really good for writing papers or if you need solid factual information. It was really helpful and opened my mind up to new concepts. I especially like how it talked about all of the essential components of a team charter and how to enact them.
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Great resource for Virtual Teams, 1 July 2009
By D. B. Prosser - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries (Hardcover)
This is a great research resource for anyone interested in virtual team. I will get alot of use as well as great advice from these collected papers
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