Lisa Kimball of Group Jazz observes that virtual teams are just teams with amplified collaboration needs.
What are the top three reasons virtual teams fail? According to Lisa, these are:
1. People lose the sense of the whole. They only see what they are doing and have no way to “look across the room” to see what others are doing. Lack of context kills.
2. Assumptions are not explicitly stated.
3. People don’t enjoy it – they don’t have fun. Without the laughs to go along with the work, it feels less “human” and the lack of personal interaction is dispiriting.
Via Arieanna Foley
