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How to Manage Virtual Teams

Teams are the typical building blocks of an organization. Dispersed teams can actually outperform groups that are all in one place. To succeed, however, virtual collaboration must be managed in specific ways. Businesses will have to emphasize teamwork even more than before, a global culture is more important than ever, and don't expect face-to-face meetings to disappear. Read more »
Also in the new Business Insight: learn lessons from the developing world, what managers really do, how to be a smart protégé, and much more.

The Line Takes the Leadership — IS Management in a Wired Society

By John F. Rockart

WHEN GEORGE DAVID conceptualized an approach to elevator maintenance based on a centralized computer communications network, he had no idea it would become a notable example of the use of information technology to gain competitive advantage. Yet the story of the major improvement in customer service made possible by OTISLINE, the Otis system, has been [...]

What Every Manager Needs to Know about Project Management

By W. Alan Randolph and Barry Z. Posner

The authors offer principles that help project managers define goals, establish checkpoints, schedules and resource requirements, motivate and empower team members, facilitate communication and manage conflict. These principles integrate the technical and human aspects of project management, allowing managers to complete projects on time, within budget, and to high quality standards.

From The Magazine

Fall 2009

Special Report: Sustainability

8 Reasons That Sustainability Will Change Management

Michael S. Hopkins

Transparency, accidental innovation, trust, collaboration — as sustainability affects how the world works, so will it affect how business works in the world.

Intelligence: Management

Debunking Management Myths

Martha E. Mangelsdorf

In this interview, Henry Mintzberg questions some of the conventional wisdom about managerial work.