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......Social dynamics within the U.S, Army Logistics Networks purchasing and procurement teams can also become highly competitive over time. As one of the most critical processes these teams work on is pricing, the tendency to compete on how far one team member can drive a supplier down in terms of price and then post their accomplishment to the teams Intranet pages, a securely protected website is commonplace. The front page of the Intranet site at times can be seen as a leader-board of who is getting the greatest price concessions over time from suppliers. In the context of this pricing competition leaders of these virtual teams need to be careful to nurture healthy interdepartmental and even independent competition without sacrificing team accomplishment. This is one of the paradoxes of managing global virtual teams to attain the highest levels of performance possible, which is the managing of collaboration versus competition (Lee-Kelley, Sankey, 2008). The team dynamics needed to accomplish this balance is critically important, and calls on leaders to continually stay focused on building trust and transparency (Purvanova, Bono,2009). The essence of transformation leaderships contribution to virtual teams effectiveness is the creating of a trust-based approach to communication. As difficult as

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