Michael E. Kossler & Sonya Prestridge 
Leading Dispersed Teams [PDF ebook] 

This is a book about leading dispersed teams–teams that aremade up of people who don’t work in the same geographicalarea. Such teams don’t often meet face-to-face. Usually theirmembers are separated by time and distance, and they often bringdifferent cultural views to bear on their work. Solving potentialcommunication problems and devising processes for making decisionsand managing conflict are challenges for leaders of dispersedteams. But before they can address those challenges, they need toanalyze the support such a team will get from the organization as awhole.Dispersed teams are a necessary, strategic work unit in a worldthat continues to grow more interconnected every day. Guiding themto their full potential is a difficult challenge for even the mostseasoned team leader.

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7 What Is a Dispersed Team?7 Act Global, Think Local Leadership That Exploits Advantages Leadership That Mitigates Disadvantages12 Launching a Dispersed Team Assessing Readiness Meeting for the First Time22 Leading a Dispersed Team Communication and Information Sharing Decision Making Conflict Resolution27 Dispersed Teams: Leadership Challenges for an Interconnected World29 Suggested Readings30 Background30 Key Point Summary

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This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, sinceits inception in 1970, through its research and educationalactivity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands ofmanagers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a waythat is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply acollection of individual experts, although the individualcredentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and workingtogether to understand and generate practical responses to today’sleadership and organizational challenges.The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specificadvice on how to complete a developmental task or solve aleadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL’smission to advance the understanding, practice, and development ofleadership for the benefit of society worldwide.Michael E. Kossler is a senior enterprise associate at CCL’s Greensboro campus. He works with new global clients toassess their organizations’ leadership development needs andthen to design and implement custom solutions. He served as theproject manager for CCL’s research on geographicallydispersed teams. Mike holds an M.A. in communications from the University of Akron and an M.M. in organizational development from Aquinas College.Sonya Prestridge is a former senior program associate at CCL’s Greensboro campus. She was a member of CCL’sresearch team investigating geographically dispersed teams. Sonyaholds an M.A. from Peabody College and a Ph.D. in adult educationfrom the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.