Adventures In Businessing

Set-Up for Success for Distributed Teams

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Show Notes:   [0:00:54] Intro    You have found it! Jeremy messes up Kevin’s ‘flow’. Very Brief Last Episode Summary   [0:2:23] Decisions We’ve Made to Set Up for Success for Distributed Work   Rule #1: Experiment! Rule #2: Test what works for you, throw away the rest.  Categorizing our decisions by clarity, connection, and collaboration. How transitioning to distributed, at first, brought teamwide clarity to a halt. Being colocated for so long was our crutch, the one that made us think we were better at clarity than what we actually were. Looking back, we also confused in-office distraction and being “busy” for solid communication and real progress. Which is certainly less than ideal.  If Slack communication is the main way you run your business (like ours was), you may find clarity, quality communication, and work/life balance to be suffering.  Distributed isn’t isolated to software.  Jeremy elaborates on his time with bankers and his remote experience regarding his own work in distr