Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life, The

Part II: Virtual Teams: Working Together Apart^[45]

Until recently, when you said that you worked with someone, you meant by implication that you worked in the same place for the same organization. Suddenly, in the blink of an evolutionary eye, people no longer must be in the same place—co-located—in order to work together. Now many people work in virtual teams that transcend distance, time zones, and organizational boundaries.^[46]

—JESSICA LIPNACK AND JEFFREY STAMPS, Virtual Teams: Reaching Across Time, Space, and Technology

Increasingly, virtual teams (also called “distributed” teams) are becoming commonplace in organizations. Indeed, many researchers and practitioners argue, “a key component of successful, twenty-first century organizations ...