A number of years ago, I worked on an executive team in which everyone was located in the same building but people seemed frustratingly far apart. Yet at my first job out of business school, I worked on a number of teams in which we were scattered across the globe but I felt closely connected with those individuals. What accounts for such huge, seemingly counterintuitive differences?
Three Symptoms of a Vulnerable Team
Physical proximity doesn’t mean a team is on the same page.
September 20, 2012
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