Try This

1.	At the next team meeting, find out if anyone has ever contributed to an Open Source project. If so, ask each one to answer these questions: Why did you spend your free time coding? How long did you do it? How much time did you spend? If appropriate, ask these questions as well: What kept you doing it for such a long time? Why did you stop? What did you like best about working on Open Source? What was the thing that annoyed you the most?
2.	Identify a "global team" in your world, and brainstorm with others involved with the team the answers to the following questions: Is this a single team or an association of teams in different locations? Are members of the team committed to a common goal? What is it? Would everyone on the team agree that this is a goal they are personally committed to achieve? How do people in different locations know if they have done a good job? Where does applause come from? If you did not involve people at all locations in this exercise, then have people in a different location repeat the exercise and compare answers.
3.	What is the primary purpose of outsourcing in your company? What kinds of activities does the company keep inside rather than outsource? Are the incentives of outsourcing agreements aligned with the best interests of your company and your customers? Can you imagine ways in which your outsourcing arrangements might create questions of allegiance in the minds of workers in your company? In the other company?
4.	For contracting companies: What kinds of contracts do you routinely use? What do you see as the key benefit of that kind of contract? What is the key risk? If you were in the shoes of your contractors, what would you see as the benefits and risks of that kind of contract?
5.	For contractors: What kinds of contracts do you routinely engage in? Are some types better for you than others? Consider your favorite contracting format and reconsider it from the point of view of the contracting companies. What do you see as the benefits and risks for them?