Elevate Classics — Keith Ferrazzi on Competing in the New World of Work
• The work-from-anywhere reality of a world changed by COVID-19 has turned communications into a profound and critical weakness for every company, every leader, every rising star, every restless worker.
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Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice
David C. Baker • 10 highlights
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The synchronizer—or, for large companies, a team of synchronizers—would be responsible for solving the new-worker, new-group, and new-idea problems. Synchronizers would help new workers by ensuring that their managers, mentors, and colleagues are with them at the office during an early onboarding period. They would plan in-person time for new teamm... See more
The Atlantic • The Biggest Problem With Remote Work
- In other worse, teams of people who actually get to know each other in person can often create the strongest results. Colvin went on to cite a bunch of work that showed how people collaborated worse when remote, which again, must be concerning for leaders of distributed teams.
- Colvin also explored how doctors were being trained to provide a more emp