The Return of the Non-Virtual Organization - Tom Davenport - HarvardBusiness.org - The Diigo Meta page

• 08 Jun 09
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  I can't tell you how many companies I have worked with that have encouraged or tolerated a large degree of geographic dispersal among employees and management teams. "We're virtual, and proud of it," one told me. "It doesn't matter where you live anymore," many employees of virtualized companies have argued. "We travel all the time anyway," has been another frequent mantra.

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  • Senior managers, in particular, are a group that benefits from high-bandwidth interpersonal contact. Henry Mintzberg and other researchers have shown that their jobs typically consist of a variety of short, and frequently unplanned, interactions. It's much easier to accomplish these when you are all in the same vicinity.
• 30 May 09
  

  Marc Buyens

  Davenport organisational change virtual communities

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