Sketchplanations - A weekly explanation in a sketch

This is the big one. If you’re conducting blue sky imagineering improv meetings on a regular basis, that’s very tough to pull off remotely. There’s something about the physical presence of people in a room, seeing their faces, hearing their voices, watching their body language, that is far more conducive to quickly bouncing ideas around and figurin... See more

In a virtual meeting, all eyes are focused on screens and ignore the environment, which "constrains the associative process underlying idea generation,".

How do you know when to break into a conversation in a virtual meeting without interrupting someone else? How do you re-construct the aimless but essential conversations that happen during a Friday casual demo hour with food? The esprit de corps of a well-constructed all hands that fires everyone up? And I’ve never seen anyone conduct a productive ... See more

Any time you conduct what you would consider to be a “meeting” with someone else, take minutes! That is, write down what happened in bullet-point form, so those remote team members who couldn’t be there can benefit from — or at least hear about — whatever happened in sequence.