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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.

Bundling — New Products, New Markets, Low Risk

By Gary D. Eppen, Ward A. Hanson and R. Kipp Martin

INCREASING NUMBER of companies are realizing the value of combining separate elements of their product lines into bundles. Creating a bundle is like creating a new product. Thus bundles, like new products, can be instruments for implementing company strategy. Although bundles act like new products in the marketplace, they are typically much less expensive and [...]

How to Design a Conflict Management Procedure That Fits Your Dispute

By Danny Ertel

IN ANCIENT GREECE, a tale was told of a roadside inn where a traveler might find lodging for the night, and although the traveler might be tall, short, fat, or thin, the inn’s bed fit all just the same. The innkeeper, of course, was Procrustes, a giant who tied travelers to the bedstead and either [...]

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.