Articles of Interest

Chapter 1

“Teams That Span Time Zones Face New Work Rules”
by Bill Snyder, in Stanford Business Magazine [Online], May 2003.

Team leadership is a key issue in Chapter One and in this article Bill Snyder describes problems faced by teams working in a global virtual environment as well as ways to address the problems, resolve conflicts and evaluate success.

“Lessons from the Year of Living Dangerously”
by Sarah L. Roberts-Witt, in PC Magazine [Online], 1 July 2001.

This article discusses the importance of the B2B (Business-to-Business) model versus the B2C (Business-to-Customers) model in succeeding on the Internet. The author follows one company, E.piphany through the ups and downs of the early E-commerce days with a look to the future of the industry.