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Virtual Leadership: Secrets from the Round Table for the Multi-Site Manager

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I just finished reading this book today, and strongly recommend it to managers and project leaders who are struggling with the human side of how to make geographically distributed teams work. The lessons in this book are equally valid for achieving results with team members whether they are two floors or two time zones away.

First of all, I enjoy "instructional fiction" as conveyed in business quick-reads like "Virtual Leadership." This type of business novel is fun to read! Also, this contemporary business text covers an important topic in the age of virtual organizations and e-businesses -- how to establish and manage virtual teams. Enjoy!

This is a wonderful book that lays out effective tools, techniques, and strategies for working with geographically diverse teams. This book is so appropriate for our virutal organization that my entire management team will have copies soon!

We loved this book so much that we have all our team members read it AND we give it away as sales gifts to potential clients.

This book was so helpful and easy to read. It was unique because of the fabulous story it told (with a really cool twist of an ending) ... a how-to storybook for today's virtual world.

I couldn't put it down, read it in one sitting and have benefitted from it every day since. It really helped me straighten out my virtual leadership nightmare. Thanks so very much!

This book does well in choosing a fictional vehicle to deliver an important message to managers of remote teams. There is a tendancy within the technology industry, and management in general, to think that VOICEMAIL, EMAIL, and WEB SITES etc. are in themselves the solution to managing staff spread across various workplaces. By drawing the comparison between a modern day project and King Arthur's building of Camelot, this book goes a long way to teaching the human element in making teams cohesive across cultural and geographic divides.

I really enjoyed reading this book. It provided a very useful set of tools and tips that are needed for every virtual manager. The book is written in an easy to read manner. Additionally, the book uses simple objects and icons that relate to the author's key points as an effective memory tool which allows the manager to easily recall and implement the information. A must have for all virtual managers.

Written at about a fouth-grade level. Buries nuggets of useful information in a horrible faux-historical fiction. I couldn't finish it.

I highly recommend this book as an entertaining one on how to be a virtual leader. In the style of Lencioni's "Five Dysfunctions of a Team" it provides some very good points. Plus it is a quick read.

for people who have to lead at a distance, and would like to become more effective and build relations at distace

I must take strong exception to James Garvin DC Something-or-other's review. He obviously lacks a sense of imagination and must suffer from concrete thinking. Those who subsequently reviewed this book (which I have been seeking under its original title since my copy was stolen in 1994) see beyond the historical contrivance to allow comparison of current dispersed management problems with those faced by other managers and leaders.

The author has gone on to a successful career guided by the same concepts. This is a book recommended by other management leaders and enlightened readers.