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

by Alberto S. Silveira Jr.

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
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.

228 pages, Paperback

Published May 11, 2021

Reviews

[Stephanie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book lost credibility for me when it presented Space X as a model to follow. For me high performing includes sustainable and psychologically healthy. There are a few pieces that would be good for someone new to the idea of distributed teams.

[Daniel Noventa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent and necessary read for anyone leading a distributed team. Good tools to reference and a human centered focus on managing teams.

[Farhoud Cheraghi · Rating 3 out of 5]

There is nothing wrong with what the author writes, but for me - a person who has worked in agile environments in software development- the concepts he is selling as sophisticated were to simple and known. And, tbh they don’t make a high performance team imo. They only make a functioning distributed team.
So, if you are coming from a very conservative workplace and you are interested to hear some aspects that you don’t believe will work in a remote world and be told that they do work, this is a ok book.
If you are looking for details how to build a high performant team you will be disappointed.

[John D Patton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book on the power of teams - an insightful journey into a positive way of working.

[Abdulrhmn Ghanem · Rating 3 out of 5]

It talked about almost everything except building and managing high-performance teams.