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Who We Are:
  Virtual Distance International is a research-based consulting firm with a deep understanding of the new challenges companies face in the 21st century workplace.
 

  Our research has identified the real and measureable components of Virtual Distance that dramatically impact team and organizational success.

 
  Despite the benefits of increased virtualization in the workplace there are real and tangible business risks in managing a virtual workforce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Engineering Frontiers

 

leading the DISPERSED WORKFORCE

 

...an article appearing in the November 2009 issue of Mechanical Engineering Magazine...

 

When it comes to the distances that can separate virtual teams, geography is only the beginning. 

By

 Richard R. Reilly and

Karen Sobel Lojeski

 

 

November 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
> In AmericanTowns.com  "Going the (Virtual) Distance:  Three Keys to Successfully Leading a Virtual Workforce World;" November 18, 2009.
> This press release also appeared in News Blaze on November 17, 2009.
> and in IPFrontline on November 16, 2009.
 
 
The Little Pink Book featured Leading the Virtual Workforce in their November 4, 2009 e-newsletter.
 
 
New Release!
 

 

  World markets are unsteady, unemployment is on the rise, housing foreclosures are up, asset values are down, and the political landscape is shifting. Under such tumultuous conditions, people often look to leaders to soothe battered nerves. But in today’s rough and tumble environment, there are reportedly few leaders the average person relies upon.

 

  Over 80 percent of Americans believe that we are in the midst of a major leadership crisis. And over 75 percent of executives from around the world are seriously concerned about whether businesses can develop good leaders for the future. And yet not one leadership book squarely addresses the issue of the changed workforce, the virtual workforce, and why old leadership models just don’t work–until now.

 

  Leading the Virtual Workforce builds off the groundbreaking concept of Virtual Distance introduced in Sobel-Lojeski’s seminal first book, Uniting the Virtual Workforce. And in never-before-published interviews, leaders from IBM, Merck & Co., Inc., Western Union, Alcatel-Lucent, HP, AT&T and more share detailed case studies about what’s different about leadership today and how to become a great leader in the Digital Age... Read Launch Flier

 

Virtual Distance:

 

Virtual Distance is an increasingly significant challenge that modern organizations face and must master to be successful in the new global economy.

 

 

What It Is:

 

  Virtual DistanceTM is the perceived distance between two or more individuals when their primary method of communication and coordination is not face to face.

 

  Virtual Distance can exist regardless of whether people are sparated by millimeters, miles or continental masses.

 

How we measure it:

 

The Virtual Distance IndexTM

 

 

  Virtual Distance is measured using the Virtual Distance Index developed by Virtual Distance International. 

 

  It was developed to quantitatively measure Virtual Distance and associate it with team and organizational performance.

 

  Extensive studies have shown that the impact of high Virtual Distance can significantly hamper organizational financial performance, efficiency, innovation and effectiveness.