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Meeting the Real Challenges in Leading Virtual Teams

Posted June 30, 2006 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review

As virtual teams grow in popularity, their leaders increasingly ask, "What should I do to manage them effectively?" We undertook our survey to help answer this question. We focused on the actions leaders can take to successfully deal with their team's virtuality. First, we explored the myth that virtual teams can't be effective, or at least that they can't be effective if team members or leaders don't meet face-to-face at least some of the time. We then explored differences in team leader behavior in effective and ineffective teams, and asked about the team leader's role in virtual teams.

About The Author
Carol Saunders
Carol Stoak Saunders is Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Central Florida. She served as General Conference Chair of ICIS '99 and Telecommuting '96. She was the Chair of the Executive Committee of ICIS in 2000 and inducted as an AIS (Association of Information Systems) Fellow in 2003. Currently she is Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly. Her current research interests include the organizational impacts of information… Read More
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