Virtual Teams and How They Learn,
by Jessica Lipnack/A> and Jeffrey Stamps

Nearly every team at work today has members who are more than 50 feet apart. Since communication and collaboration fall off sharply at distances of greater than 50 feet (see MIT Professor Tom Allen's work for more on this), teams face a considerable challenge. How do they learn when in fact their work is largely virtual? Meanwhile, technology offers substantial aid to enable cross-distance learning. This keynote will focus on how virtual teams -- those that cross boundaries of space, time, and/or organization -- learn. What are the key principles and what are the simple, yet powerful, media that virtual teams can use to accelerate and expand their intelligence.

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