Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams: Navigating the Future of Work

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10. Opening the Net: Building a Distributed Team

Alberto S. Silveira Jr.¹  

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Mount Kisco, NY, USA

 

I work in Manhattan, and I live reasonably close by, in the suburbs—Westchester, to be exact. You would think that working in one of the largest and most exciting cities in the world would mean that finding great talent to join a team would be easy. But it’s not, and there’s more than one reason why.

First, New York City is extremely large, and it sits in the center of a megalopolis that stretches from Boston to Washington D.C., and that means ...