"Making cross-border teams work"

I've carried on before about off-the-top of the head lists of how to make virtual teams work. The one I'm about to refer to is not that.

Thanks to Leading Virtually, I came across Making cross-border teams work, an excellent article by Anik K. Gupta and Haiyan Wang in The Times of India, that provides some general principles about what the authors call "global business teams." The article doesn't cover the entire laundry list of concerns but it articulates three very well: team charter, team composition, and team process. If you're troubling over how to make these complex distributed entities more effective, satisfying, and creative, take a look.