There’s a common belief that innovation and synergy are weaker in distributed teams, because people don’t bump into each other to spark great ideas. However, that’s not necessarily true. It is possible, as long as you overcome the natural “out of sight, out of mind” bias against your remote workers.
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References
- Sharing ideas: Yammer, Innocentive
- Q&A forum: Stack Exchange
- Talent Markets: Upwork, Topcoder, Kaggle
- Crowdfunding: Kickstarter, Indiegogo