Reputation Space: Trust In A Connected World

People cluster together. We form groups for economic and social reasons. What if we could use our natural tendency for social clustering as a way to drive teams? What if we could create conditions that would attract “the right people”? What if those “right people” would “trust” all other member in the group, just because …

Trending Topics In Your Project

Every moment in a project has a specific set of topics and discussions you would expect. During the start up “planning” and “scope”, just before delivery “creating the final build” and “acceptance”. If you are in a room with your team it happens very often that a talk between people in the same room morphs …

Great Virtual Teams: Rule 2: Use Technology to Simulate Reality

How to use social media successfully in projects, is described in the Harvard Business Review article by Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra, Jeffrey Stamps and Jessica Lipnack: “Can Absence Make A Team Grow Stronger”. The article is from 2004, and they are not mentioning “social media”, they discuss “virtual workspaces”. But the two concepts are strikingly …

Successful Virtual Teams With Jessica Lipnack

If you want to know stuff, you go to the experts. So, when you want to know how to work successfully in virtual teams, you go to Jessica Lipnack. She is CEO of NetAge, a company she cofounded and runs with Jeff Stamps. For three decades, Jessica and Jeff have provided expertise and tools that …