The Networking Book: People Connecting with People

Lipnack, Jessica

Stamps, Jeffrey

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Penguin??Books

The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Century

Presents a novel, practical perspective on how to think about a company and reinvent it without losing the value and knowledge embedded in the current organization. Based on concepts used by top corporations, this excellent resource demonstrates how to create enterprises which are defined by speed, agility and a web of interconnected relationships. Describes how businesses can rapidly break through impenetrable challenges and create entirely new opportunities by developing interlocking, boundary-crossing teams. Emphasizes five essential team principles which include establishing a clear purpose and creating rich communication links.

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

wiley

TeamNets are tomorrow's answer, here today, to the organizational quagmire of succeeding with fewer resources, less people and intense competition. Demonstrates how to create sustainable competitive advantage while generating boundary-crossing relationships with other companies, competitors, suppliers, customers, regional business networks and international partners. Provides practical, proven insights on how to get a quick start with TeamNets, the best methods to select TeamNet partners, effectively use the TeamNet toolbox and sustain successful TeamNets over time.

The TeamNet Factor: Bringing the Power of Boundary Crossing Into the Heart of Your Business

praise for The Age of the Network 
"A very stimulating, visionary account of how networks and networking are organizational structures and processes of the future."—Edgar H. Schein, Sloan Fellows Professor of Management Emeritus, MIT, Sloan School of Management "Networking — practical, down-to-earth, easily understood descriptions of how others have obtained a competitive edge." — William R. Johnson, General Manager, Networking Hardware Division, IBM "Collaborative advantage is the wave of the future; Lipnack and Stamps show how to catch that wave and ride it triumphantly. With memorable wit and wisdom, their book provides numerous valuable lessons for the challenging changes ahead: how to see further by sitting on boundaries, organize teams that really get something done, and loosen hierarchies without losing control."—Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, Author of When Giants Learn to Dance and The Change Masters The Age of the Network shows how organizations can break through mental and bureaucratic log jams and open up new opportunities by creating links both inside and outside themselves. With numerous, real-world examples, authors Lipnack and Stamps demonstrate how to form interlocking, boundary-crossing teams and thus build a truly networked enterprise. Focusing on five essential principles of "teamnets" (networks of teams), this forward-looking book reveals ways organizations can use these networks to realize their full potential and sustain this new dynamic well into the future.

Teams are the key to smart, flexible, and cost-effective organizations for the 21st century. However, advances in communication technologies have dramatically changed the nature of teamwork. Traditional, collocated teams are now giving way to distributed cross-boundary virtual groups linked through relationships and technology, reaching across space, time, and organizational boundaries. In their fifth book, Virtual Teams, Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, leading experts in networked organizations, take you beyond teams into the new world of work-at-a-distance, showing you how to effectively start, implement, and maintain virtual teams in your own organization. 
Today, virtual teams are an established feature of multisite and global companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Bank of Boston, and Steelcase. Made possible by technologies like the Internet, intranets, and groupware, these teams are invaluable tools for organizations that need to bring together specialized groups of people to work on projects or comprise a spread-out business unit. The principles outlined in Virtual Teams provide an antidote to the high failure rate of teams. At the same time, as the authors warn, "It is harder for virtual teams to be successful than for traditional face-to-face teams. Misunderstandings are more likely to arise and more things are likely to go wrong." In this straightforward guide, Lipnack and Stamps provide a comprehensive framework that makes virtual teams accessible and practical. Beginning with a brief overview of exactly what virtual teams are and how they work, the authors show how they can be integrated into your business structure. Featuring insightful case studies from Eastman Chemical Company, NCR, Tetra Pak, and Sun Microsystems, this stimulating and hands-on reference offers essential information on: <ul>
<li>The basic virtual team principles: people, purpose, links</li> <li>The skills and technologies necessary for creating a successful virtual team</li> <li>Supporting the dynamics of the cross-boundary team and enhancing personal communications electronically</li> <li>Virtual team applications of the Internet's newest offspring, intranets</li> </ul>
Providing an in-depth look at an increasingly important teamwork tool, Virtual Teams gives you the materials you need to create and build a winning virtual team for your own organization. "If you want to see where organizational communications are going in the future, heed what these pioneers have written today." —Howard Rheingold, Author of The Virtual Community and Founder of Electric Mind "Lipnack and Stamps have written an important book for the 21st century corporation." —Regis McKenna, The McKenna Group, author of Relationship Marketing "This book provides a long overdue perspective on how to apply the discipline of real teams in the fast moving, increasingly dispersed information age of the future." —Jon R. Katzenbach, Author, The Wisdom of Teams "For those who want to lead the movement, catch up with it, or simply know where it is going, this book is packed with useful information and interesting stories." —Dee W. Hock, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, VISA "Virtual Teams provides valuable insights into global teamwork and management through network technologies now available to all companies, large or small." —Jim Lynch, Director, Corporate Quality, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Virtual Teams: Reaching Across Space, Time, and Organizations with Technology

Virtual Teams: People Working Across Boundaries with Technology

Praise for the First Edition of Virtual Teams "If you want to see where organizational communications are going in the future, heed what these pioneers have written today." ―Howard Rheingold, author, The Virtual Community, and founder, Electric Mind "Lipnack and Stamps have written an important book for the twenty-first-century corporation." ―Regis McKenna, The McKenna Group, author, Relationship Marketing "This book provides a long overdue perspective on how to apply the discipline of real teams in the fast-moving, increasingly dispersed information age of the future." ―Jon R. Katzenbach, author, The Wisdom of Teams "For those who want to lead the movement, catch up with it, or simply know where it is going, this book is packed with useful information and interesting stories." ―Dee W. Hock, founder and chairman emeritus, VISA "Virtual Teams provides valuable insights into global teamwork and management through network technologies now available to all companies, large or small." ―Jim Lynch, director, corporate quality, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Computers & Technology

Reference

Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd

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The Networking Book: People Connecting with People

The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Century

The TeamNet Factor: Bringing the Power of Boundary Crossing Into the Heart of Your Business

The Age of the Network: Organizing Principles for the 21st Century

Virtual Teams: Reaching Across Space, Time, and Organizations with Technology

Virtual Teams: People Working Across Boundaries with Technology

The Networking Book: People Connecting with People