Chapter 8. Diverse Teams and Virtual Teams: Managing Differences and Distances

Chapter Objectives

This chapter will help you:

  • Understand the advantages and risks of diverse and distributed teams

  • Learn techniques for effectively managing diverse and distributed teams

  • Understand why managing the relationship dynamics is as important as managing the technical aspects of distributed teams

What do you do on the day after the merger when you wake up and find out half your team is on the other side of the country (or worse yet, on the other side of the world)?

—MARTHA HAYWOOD, AUTHOR Managing Virtual Teams

Imagine a typical management team in the 1960s in Dallas. The marketing manager is meeting with his new product development team that convenes weekly ...

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