ASTD Survey: 40% of Global Team Underperform

NEW YORK, NY – May 24, 2010 – According to a study released today, 80% of corporate managers work  virtually at least part of the time and 63% are members of global virtual teams. The key factors that impair productivity are: cultural differences, communication styles, time-zone differences, language and a lack of face-to-face contact, according to the Virtual Teams Survey Report 2010 – The Challenges of Working in Virtual Teams, conducted by RW3 CultureWizard, an intercultural training consultancy specializing in online intercultural training for global business managers.

Get the report from ASTD.

Posted by Kristin

Good Seth Godin post on email!

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/04/8-things-i-wish-everyone-knew-about-email.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29

Execution in a Whirlwind

Good stuff from Franklin Covey on how to execute on goals. 

http://www.franklincovey.com/4dflv/4D_2Vid.html

Make Employee Performance Reviews Less Stressful

 Posted by Toni Bowers on January 5th, 2010 on  TechRepublic.com > IT Leadership

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=2750&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techrepublic%2Ftech-manager+%28TechRepublic+Tech+Manager%29

The Lies We Tell Ourselves

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