This updated edition includes major new chapters on Virtual Teams since nowadays many team leaders will be faced with one of these - either as a participant or as a group that they must facilitate and inspire. The authors emphasize that it is not so much new technology that matters but how new forms of relationship can generate far more than the sum of their parts. It also has a new introduction about how the successful team leader is a pro-active chooser who can build their effectiveness from being a player through to a pioneer up to a creator.