Notes on dispersed teams, from around the web. Today: Inc. magazine goes remote; studies show “vritual” teams can match or outperform collocated ones; and the latest in bathrobe fashion.
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The Federal Coach: Rethinking the workplace in the 21st century – Tom Fox – Annotated
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Yet, with the ever-increasing demands on government, leaders must learn to adapt to the new century and start rethinking when, how and where work is done. The bottom line is simple: it’s not where you are, but what gets accomplished that counts.
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Telecommuting’s Win-Win-Win-Win..Etc. | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit – Annotated
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As a new white paper (PDF) from the Telework Research Network (TRN) reports, workshifting is good for People: 70 percent of workers would like to be able to work from home at least some of the time.
It’s good for the Planet, because those homeworkers are not driving to work or burning energy when they are there.
And finally, it’s good for Profits, because those liberated workers tend to be harder working and more productive (and you don’t have to pay for real estate to sit them at desks).
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How to Manage Virtual Teams – MIT Sloan Management Review – Annotated
Results of a study of 80 software development projects with varying levels of dispersion.
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In fact, we found that virtual teams with such processes can outperform their colocated counterparts, and that was true even for colocated teams with the same high levels of those processes.
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A Guide to the Freelance Writing Lifestyle – Annotated
A tongue-in-cheek look at life as a remote worker.
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We all work in our bathrobes! In fact, most of us have a variety of lovely bathrobes, from satin to flannel to knit. It’s what separates us from all those suckers with regular jobs.
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Telecommuting is Not Just an HR Perk – Annotated
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Economic, environmental, and continuity of operations demands suggest that telecommuting is more than an HR perk and should be a fundamental business strategy adopted, at the very least, by any company that has people sitting in front of a computer all day.
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The Case, and the Plan, for the Virtual Company – Annotated
Inc. Magazine tells the story of their experiment taking their entire editorial staff out of the office.
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Repeat after us: The technology doesn’t matter as much as you think it does. The more time we spent out of the office, the less we even thought about the technology. Most virtual employees can do their jobs with a laptop, some free software programs, an Internet connection, and not a whole lot else.
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Leading Virtual Teams to Real Results – Harvard Business Review – Annotated
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One of the most effective tools Taccini has used is a monthly video blog (vlog). “It has been one of the best ways to communicate, supplemented by calls with everyone in my reporting chain,” he said. “Even though it’s not two-way real time, I get more participation from the vlog. My team sends questions, and they also have Web spaces to create collaboration spaces.”
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Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
more of the same!
i enjoyed a lot of those episodes (but i understand it is time consuming for you, and can get a bit repetitive)