Is there anyone out there?

When Adam Kingl gets cornered at cocktail parties, there’s one question he is likely to be asked: what’s the best technology to use when running a virtual team?Kingl, director of the emerging leaders programme at London Business School, is quick to put them right. It’s not the technology that matters — it’s the team.“The foundation of any high-performing team is building trust, so leaders need to find out something about each member of the team as individuals,” he said.“The fact that it is a virtual team does not mean you abandon that need to get to know people on a personal level. One of the problems with the virtual environment is you lose a certain degree of context because you miss out…