Managing Without Walls

Product Description Look Inside the Book Author Bio Specifications Worldwide, companies like yours are rapidly adopting a new business model: the virtual office, where team members use technology to break down geographic boundaries and collaborate on projects from around the globe. New ways of doing business require fresh new approaches to management, and this is particularly true when managing IT resources that may be located almost anywhere. . .from Baltimore to Bangalore. Managing Without Walls shows managers like you how to leverage the virtual business model for maximum effectiveness. With it, you will learn special techniques for being successful at managing, coaching, and developing team members in this new and exciting, but challenging, environment. Many managers try to apply traditional management processes to this new way of doing business, often with limited success. Researchers tell us that 80 percent of human communication is non-verbal, but this valuable "face time"