Book Review: VIRTUAL TEAM SUCCESS

VIRTUAL TEAM SUCCESS

Author: Richard Lepsinger & Darleen DeRosa

Virtual Team Success

ISBN-13: 9780470532966

Topic:  Business & Economics - Management

Format:  Hardcover
Language:  English
Publication Year:  2010

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Review:

I have had to manage teams in USA, Philippines and India simultaneously.  Each was tasked with a component of a larger goal.  As I read this book, I was angry I had not found it sooner.      Virtual Team Success has concrete examples and explains how to meet various virtual challenges.

About the Authors

Darleen DeRosa, Ph.D., is a managing partner at OnPoint Consulting. She brings ten years of management consulting experience, with expertise in the areas of talent/succession management, executive assessment, virtual teams, and organizational assessment. Darleen has authored numerous articles on virtual teams.

Richard Lepsinger is president of OnPoint Consulting and has a twenty-year track record of success as a human resource consultant and executive. He is the coauthor of four books on leadership including Closing the Execution Gap: How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results, Flexible Leadership: Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices, The Art and Science of 360? Feedback, and The Art and Science of Competency Models, all from Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer.

Publisher's Note:

"Virtual teams are intended to make optimal use of expertise spread across the world, but performance excellence is the exception and mediocrity the rule. After extensive and careful study of real teams, DeRosa and Lepsinger have captured essential information, principles of operation, and tools in a highly readable volume that can help thoughtful readers elevate the performance of the teams significantly. The practical focus, collection of techniques and tools, and "how to" tips provide an essential foundation for anyone with virtual team responsibility. The organization of the book centered around challenges, differentiators, and lessons will facilitate finding answers to any problem the team faces. The RAMP model makes it easy to focus on what's important in enabling top performance."

—Mike Beyerlein, professor, Organizational Leadership, Purdue University

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