How to Build Remote and Distributed Teams
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How to Build Remote and Distributed Teams
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- Lower the barriers to communication ○ Elect tools that encourage easy communication and transparency § Slack § Zoom § Figma - Make shared objectives explicit ○ Common cause is the glue that binds a team together ○ Before launching your team, start by specifying the why § 2 months: ask "what should our team accomplish in two months?" □ Encourage d... See more
Parabol • 6 Tips for Managing Remote Teams
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After interviewing a ton of founders that have either been remote-first from the beginning or are shifting to remote-first, I found that one of the most important things is this default to async work, where documentation is just so critical. Everything needs to be well documented, shareable and discoverable within your team.
Jan-Erik Asplund • Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, on rethinking the primitives of presentations
Ted Glasnow added
I’ve spent years reading, experimenting, and gathering ideas about this. And while I won’t claim to have the secret recipe to cure all issues, there’s one thing all successful remote teams have in common:
they fight the siloing of information as if their survival depends on it.
Because it does.
Jasper Polak • Create. Communicate. Coordinate.
Simon Joliveau Breney added
- Recruiting is still a deeply human activity that requires connection and that doesn't change - Hiring remotely requires a more disciplined interview process, - Embrace the opportunity to be more disciplined. We want to make sure you have the right tools to continue interviewing candidates and building a strong pipeline Upgrade your tech stack now... See more
Beth Scheer • Best Practices for Remote Hiring · Remote Hiring
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- Working with friends
- Small core team (<10 people)
- Remote-first
- Asynchronous communication
- Very few meetings
- No managers or PMs
- Transparent decision-making
- Profit-sharing among the team
- Annual liquidity windows for equity
- No institutional investors
- No required work hours; everyone is responsible for their own tasks
- Focus on creating high-quality produc
Calm Company - Michael Karnjanaprakorn
Max Beauroyre added
on creating calm companies
Distributed work creates the opportunity for individuals to curate a set of physical environments perfectly tailored to maximize their own effectiveness.
Brett Bivens • Building Bollingen Tower
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