Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams: Navigating the Future of Work

The age of the distributed team is upon us. Teams can now operate and collaborate from locations other than a central office, and events surrounding the 2020 COVID pandemic have thrown its practicality into sharp relief. Managing a team whose members are distributed across several locations requires a different mindset and will remain a must-have for all areas of business from this point forward.

Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams explains what the distributed teams concept means to the future of your company. Author Alberto S. Silveira Jr. leverages his industry knowledge to explore why the high-performance distributed team model is vital to the future of business, and explains how to build and maintain one through times of change. You will learn to differentiate between distributed teams, remote work, offshoring, and what each means in a modern context. Silveira also weaves in stories from his other life as a boater and sailor, using analogies and lessons gained from humankind's thousands of years of maritime adventure to illustrate the value of well-managed teams, and to also convey the importance of life-work balance in today's working world.

The book analyzes team management strategies from some of the great successes and failures in recent years so that you can learn from the experiences of others. Building and Managing High-Performance Distributed Teams is your definitive guide for building a dynamic distributed team, using collaboration technology to attract and engage the most important element of any business--your people. Whether you are a department head, a business owner, or a team leader, this book presents the no-nonsense knowledge you need now to chart your course for success.

What You Will Learn

• Understand what the new era of connected business means, and the role distributed teams will play.
• Differentiate between distributed teams, remote work, nearshore, and offshoring, and what each means to modern business.
• Discover the true heart of a high-performance distributed team (hint: it's not the technology).
• Find out what the era of distributed teams means to existing infrastructure.
• Uncover what we can learn about team management from some of the great successes and failures of recent years.
• Appreciate the techniques honed by seafarers, pilots, and software designers combined to create a successful project plan for team management and company navigation.
• Comprehend the effective simplicity of the "power of three" in building successful teams.
• Apply proven techniques of measurement and metrics without leaving the human factor behind to improve team morale and productivity.

Who This Book Is For

Team leaders or officers of small-ish companies, with populations in the tens through to the mid-hundreds. It's also for managers of somewhat autonomous departments within larger companies, and for everyone else in the boat because everyone in a company ultimately needs to know what being in a distributed team is all about.

分散團隊的時代已經來臨。團隊現在可以在非中央辦公室的地點進行操作和協作，而2020年COVID大流行事件更凸顯了這種實用性。管理分散在多個地點的團隊需要一種不同的思維方式，並且從現在開始，這將成為所有業務領域的必備技能。

《建立和管理高效分散團隊》解釋了「分散團隊」概念對您公司未來的意義。作者Alberto S. Silveira Jr.利用自己的行業知識，探討了高效分散團隊模型對企業未來的重要性，並解釋了如何在變革時期建立和維護這種團隊。您將學會區分分散團隊、遠程工作、外包等概念在現代背景下的含義。Silveira還從他作為一名船主和水手的另一個生活中，融入了故事，利用人類數千年的航海冒險所獲得的類比和經驗，來說明良好管理的團隊的價值，並傳達在當今工作世界中生活和工作平衡的重要性。

該書分析了近年來一些成功和失敗的團隊管理策略，讓您可以從他人的經驗中學習。《建立和管理高效分散團隊》是您建立動態分散團隊的權威指南，利用協作技術吸引和參與任何業務最重要的元素-您的人員。無論您是部門負責人、企業所有者還是團隊領導者，本書都提供了您現在所需的實用知識，以制定成功的路線。

您將學到什麼：
- 了解連接業務的新時代意味著什麼，以及分散團隊將扮演的角色。
- 區分分散團隊、遠程工作、近岸外包和外包，以及這些對現代企業的意義。
- 發現高效分散團隊的真正核心（提示：不是技術）。
- 了解分散團隊時代對現有基礎設施的影響。
- 從近年來一些成功和失敗的團隊管理經驗中學習。
- 理解船員、飛行員和軟件設計師所磨練的技術，結合起來為團隊管理和公司導航創建成功的項目計劃。
- 理解在建立成功團隊中「三個力量」的有效簡單性。
- 應用經過驗證的測量和指標技術，同時不忽略人的因素，以提高團隊士氣和生產力。

適合閱讀對象：
- 小型公司的團隊領導者或主管，人數從數十人到數百人不等。
- 大型公司內部相對自治的部門經理，以及公司中的其他所有人，因為公司中的每個人最終都需要了解分散團隊的意義。

Alberto S. Silveira Jr. is a passionate, energetic, and hands-on executive with many years of experience in building teams. He believes strongly that people always come first and uses trust as the foundation of his success. He loves the art of gathering people as much as he likes being out on the water in his boat. Since his earliest years growing up in Brazil, Alberto has proven himself as a natural leader who leverages his ability to learn quickly and adapt to change, which has allowed him to provide technical and product vision that accelerates value within the organizations that he has worked for or consulted to. At the heart of all of his corporate activities is a blend of leadership, empathy, and creative and analytical abilities that he uses to guide his teams towards maximum effectiveness.

Alberto S. Silveira Jr. 是一位充滿熱情、精力充沛且實際動手的高管，擁有多年建立團隊的經驗。他堅信人永遠是最重要的，並以信任作為他成功的基礎。他喜歡聚集人們的藝術，同樣喜歡在船上享受水上活動。自從他在巴西長大的早年，Alberto 就證明了自己是一位天生的領導者，他能夠快速學習和適應變化，這使他能夠提供技術和產品視野，加速組織內部價值的實現。在他所有的企業活動中，他以領導力、同理心以及創造性和分析能力的結合來引導他的團隊達到最大效能。