Uniting The Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership And Innovation In The Globally Integrated Enterprise

Getting to the virtues of virtual

Business is shifting toward large, global networks of employees connected to each other through technology, giving rise to a new phenomenon, Virtual Distance. There are three components of virtual distance:

Physical distance (I never run into your colleagues on the elevator anymore)
Operational distance (Bob can't access the portal)
Affinity distance (why do my e-mails keep offending people?)
Virtual distance creates real challenges to innovation, leadership, and overall performance, and companies that know how to manage the impact of virtual distance have a big competitive advantage. This groundbreaking book explores the concept of virtual distance and shows businesses there are definite costs to doing work in a virtual environment. It then goes a step further and offers proven methods for measuring these costs and guidance on managing them.