Virtual Teams Quotes

Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.

The Internet lets thousands of total strangers collaborate to produce a truly hivelike result.

Millennials grew up realizing that they can get the job done without having to go to the office.

I personally think of Linux development as being pretty non-localized, and I work with all the people entirely over e-mail - even if they happen to be working in the Portland area.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

As CEO of Accenture, I am not French anymore. When I'm in India, I am Indian. We are a company with no physical headquarters. We operate on a virtual level. Our leadership meetings are teleconferences, which is why the Board asked me to stay on in France. And I tell others to stay in their own countries.

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

You can't run a multinational business from your desk.

Future companies will be smaller and more nimble.

The need to congregate workers in offices will gradually diminish.

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.

We're living in a different world now in terms of employee needs, and companies have to offer alternative methods for getting the work done. Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

The challenge for corporations, if offices were to become obsolete, is twofold. How will they be able to retain their distinct cultures? And how will they be able to ensure that all employees, wherever they work from, share a united identity and vision?