Uniting the Virtual Workforce: Transforming Leadership and Innovation in the Globally Integrated Enterprise

Acknowledgments

We would like to acknowledge many people who have helped us in our ongoing work on Virtual Distance and related areas. Our sincere thanks to our Managing Editor at Microsoft, Daniel Rasmus. Dan was instrumental in helping us to establish a relationship with Wiley and helped us bring our ideas to life via this book. In addition, our Managing Editor at Wiley, Tim Burgard, was a constant source of help and support working with us whenever we needed him, helping us to shape this work, and coaching us on ways to best bring our concept to the general business audience. In addition, there were many friends and executives whom we collaborated with prior to and during our writing of the book. They include Charles House, the Honorable Jerry MacArthur Hultin, Karan Sorensen, Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Dr. Warren Axelrod, Sandy Lionetti and Alfred Bentley. We would also like to thank Dr, Martin Westwell for helping us to expand our thinking on how Virtual Distance affects our mental processes and brain functions. We thank all of our colleagues at Stevens Institute of Technology and the Institute for Innovation and Information Productivity. In addition, we thank those individuals who have supported our efforts over the long term including Dr. Edward Friedman, Dr. Alan Maltz, Anupam Gupta, Augie Campos-Marquetti, Roy Nicolosi, Vin Siegfried, Rita Stringer, Dr. Edward Stohr, Dr. Niv Ahituv, Professor Bernie Skown, and Patrick McKenna. In addition, we thank some of our personal ...