Virtual Team Success: A Practical Guide for Working and Leading from a Distance
by Darleen M. DeRosa, Richard Lepsinger
Foreword
When Darleen asked us to write the foreword to her book, we were immediately inclined to do so. With a Ph.D. in organizational psychology for which she wrote a dissertation on virtual teams and subsequently having conducted two substantial research studies on the topic as a management consultant, she has the bona fides to write authoritatively on the subject.
That Darleen and her co-author and business partner, Rick Lepsinger, have chosen to tackle the sore spot of virtual teams—why they fail—is testament to their expertise, energy, and insight.
A decade ago, Darleen's earliest work in this field was a research study of how "naturally" virtual teams perform over time using different kinds of media. While the technology studied then seems ...
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