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Can Absence Make a Team Grow Stronger? - Harvard Business Review - 3 views

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Summary: "The scores of successful virtual teams the authors examined didn't have many of the psychological and practical obstacles that plagued their more traditional, face-to-face counterparts. Team members felt freer to contribute--especially outside their established areas of expertise. The fact that such groups could not assemble easily actually made their projects go faster, as people did not wait for meetings to make decisions, and individuals, in the comfort of their own offices, had full access to their files and the complementary knowledge of their local colleagues. Reaping those advantages, though, demanded shrewd management of a virtual team's work processes and social dynamics. Rather than depend on videoconferencing or e-mail, which could be unwieldy or exclusionary, successful virtual teams made extensive use of sophisticated online team rooms, where everyone could easily see the state of the work in progress, talk about the work in ongoing threaded discussions, and be reminded of decisions, rationales, and commitments. Differences were most effectively hashed out in teleconferences, which team leaders also used to foster group identity and solidarity."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Summary: "The scores of successful virtual teams the authors examined didn't have many of the psychological and practical obstacles that plagued their more traditional, face-to-face counterparts. Team members felt freer to contribute--especially outside their established areas of expertise. The fact that such groups could not assemble easily actually made their projects go faster, as people did not wait for meetings to make decisions, and individuals, in the comfort of their own offices, had full access to their files and the complementary knowledge of their local colleagues. Reaping those advantages, though, demanded shrewd management of a virtual team's work processes and social dynamics. Rather than depend on videoconferencing or e-mail, which could be unwieldy or exclusionary, successful virtual teams made extensive use of sophisticated online team rooms, where everyone could easily see the state of the work in progress, talk about the work in ongoing threaded discussions, and be reminded of decisions, rationales, and commitments. Differences were most effectively hashed out in teleconferences, which team leaders also used to foster group identity and solidarity."</div>

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Jan Johnson | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine - 2 views

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Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative - HBS Working Knowledge - 2 views

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Enterprise 2.0: Making Virtual Collaboration Work - 2 views

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Creating emergent, adaptive systems in organizations | Trends in the Living Networks - 2 views

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Stone Age at work: Professionals still spend too much time scheduling meeting... - 1 views

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Howard Rheingold on how the five web literacies are becoming essential surviv... - 1 views

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Net Smart offers up a set of five literacies Rheingold sees as important: attention, participation, collaboration, “crap detection,” and network smarts.
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We often divide our attention online, but at any given moment make “micro decisions” about what we’re going to do — write emails for work, watch a YouTube video, get lost in Twitter. Rheingold says we have to connect our attention to our intention and be more aware of how what we’re actively doing relates (or often doesn’t) to what we need.
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Stephan Dohrn on 02 Jun 12

Important to be aware how micro-decisions affect the way we engage online. What are we paying really attention to? what are we really focusing on?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Important to be aware how micro-decisions affect the way we engage online. What are we paying really attention to? what are we really focusing on?</div>

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