The 3 secrets to managing teams spread across the globe

Distributed teams come with benefits—but with management challenges, too.

It is trite to say that we work in a global economy, but over the past decade more companies have begun to hire workers from different regions of the world and have them work in teams that are separated by large distances. Through video conferencing and messaging platforms, it is easy to share information among remote teams, but there are still significant challenges in enabling these teams to work well together.