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A review of earlier research identified five leadership characteristics that were tested in this study - communication, technical skills, trust / relationship building, vision, and collaboration. Information was gathered on how participants ranked these five leadership characteristics, and on the participants' perception of which characteristic was most important to a manager in each of four geo-cultural regions. The participant pool was virtual team members who worked for multi-national companies. Twenty companies participated. There were sixty-two usable responses - forty-nine from North America, ten from Latin America, three from Europe, and none from Asia Pacific. Descriptive and inferential statistics reported that overall, the participants ranked the Communicative and the Trust / Relationship Building leadership characteristics the most significant. 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