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„Packed with case studies, in this new era of new devices andapplications, this book is well worth reading.“(Bookviews. com, July 2008)
„The authors coin a term, “virtual distance", to refer to thefeelings of separation engendered by communicating by e-mail, instant messaging, audio conferencing and other tools. If you'veever had a misunderstanding with a colleague via e-mail, you'veexperienced virtual distance. The authors provide solid advice anda good starting point for managers who want to figure out why theirvirtual teams aren't communicating well or aren't delivering strongresults." (BusinessWeek. com, May 16, 2008)
Uniting the Virtual Workforce
Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise
von Karen Sobel Lojeski und Richard R. ReillyPraise for Uniting the Virtual Workforce
„Uniting the Virtual Workforce offers much-needed guidance on howto navigate the largely unmapped territory of virtual workenvironments in the global economy. The authors do an outstandingjob of presenting how organizations should address the challengesof virtual workforces so as to reap the huge potential benefits ofincreased growth, productivity, and innovation.“
-C. Warren Axelrod, PhD, Chief Privacy Officer and BusinessInformation Security Officer, U. S. Trust, and author of OutsourcingInformation Security
„Lojeski and Reilly bring us something that readers of businessbooks so rarely get-no nonsense practical guidance on how to managedistance, especially where it most often serves as an impediment toworking effectively.Ê If you interface with widely dispersedteam members who rarely see one another and communicate by virtueof impersonal electronics, you may expect to find this bookprovocative, counterintuitive, and above all, exciting. It givesall of us who have to struggle, while working with talent stretchedacross distance, hope, that maybe there are ways to do thisright!“
-Patrick J. McKenna, author of First Among EqualsÊ
„A must-read for global corporate executives who managegeographically dispersed job sharing teams. Practical strategiesfor preventing productivity loss and optimizing innovation. Theauthors pull no punches in showing the real downsides to thevirtual work phenomenon; they have done a great service for usall.“
-Jeff Saperstein, author of Creating Regional Wealth in theInnovation Economy
„Uniting the Virtual Workforce charts the course for competing inthe twenty-first century by tapping into the powers of virtualwork. Any manager who ignores the virtual workforce isunderperforming, and any company or organization that does notappreciate virtual work is already at a competitive disadvantage. Karen and Dick have tapped into a key ingredient in the recipe forglobal growth.“
-Jerry MacArthur Hultin, President, Polytechnic University, andformer Under Secretary of the Navy
„Authors Sobel Lojeski and Reilly have provided a useful primer forthe harried executive striving for productivity improvements whileseeing the workload expand and the workforce disperse. Usingconceptual definitions of Physical, Operational, and AffinityDistance to describe the multifaceted dimensions of building teamsof people to work effectively together, the authors construct avery powerful set of metrics for a manager to improve thecapability of his or her workgroup, no matter where it resides orhow it is composed. The book is rich in anecdotes and specificstudies that illustrate the concepts in an engaging, pertinent, andeasy-to-understand manner. In an age of outsourcing, offshoring, and decentralizing groups of people who have to get things donetogether, reading this small book will repay itself many timesover.“
-Charles House, Director, Media X Lab at Stanford University, andformer Director of the Societal Impact of Technology, IntelCorporation
„Uniting the Virtual Workforce offers much-needed guidance on howto navigate the largely unmapped territory of virtual workenvironments in the global economy. The authors do an outstandingjob of presenting how organizations should address the challengesof virtual workforces so as to reap the huge potential benefits ofincreased growth, productivity, and innovation.“
-C. Warren Axelrod, PhD, Chief Privacy Officer and BusinessInformation Security Officer, U. S. Trust, and author of OutsourcingInformation Security
„Lojeski and Reilly bring us something that readers of businessbooks so rarely get-no nonsense practical guidance on how to managedistance, especially where it most often serves as an impediment toworking effectively.Ê If you interface with widely dispersedteam members who rarely see one another and communicate by virtueof impersonal electronics, you may expect to find this bookprovocative, counterintuitive, and above all, exciting. It givesall of us who have to struggle, while working with talent stretchedacross distance, hope, that maybe there are ways to do thisright!“
-Patrick J. McKenna, author of First Among EqualsÊ
„A must-read for global corporate executives who managegeographically dispersed job sharing teams. Practical strategiesfor preventing productivity loss and optimizing innovation. Theauthors pull no punches in showing the real downsides to thevirtual work phenomenon; they have done a great service for usall.“
-Jeff Saperstein, author of Creating Regional Wealth in theInnovation Economy
„Uniting the Virtual Workforce charts the course for competing inthe twenty-first century by tapping into the powers of virtualwork. Any manager who ignores the virtual workforce isunderperforming, and any company or organization that does notappreciate virtual work is already at a competitive disadvantage. Karen and Dick have tapped into a key ingredient in the recipe forglobal growth.“
-Jerry MacArthur Hultin, President, Polytechnic University, andformer Under Secretary of the Navy
„Authors Sobel Lojeski and Reilly have provided a useful primer forthe harried executive striving for productivity improvements whileseeing the workload expand and the workforce disperse. Usingconceptual definitions of Physical, Operational, and AffinityDistance to describe the multifaceted dimensions of building teamsof people to work effectively together, the authors construct avery powerful set of metrics for a manager to improve thecapability of his or her workgroup, no matter where it resides orhow it is composed. The book is rich in anecdotes and specificstudies that illustrate the concepts in an engaging, pertinent, andeasy-to-understand manner. In an age of outsourcing, offshoring, and decentralizing groups of people who have to get things donetogether, reading this small book will repay itself many timesover.“
-Charles House, Director, Media X Lab at Stanford University, andformer Director of the Societal Impact of Technology, IntelCorporation
