Transformation

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.

Without people that know what good looks like, who can usefully and accurately assess the skills of the employees, and then coach the people to the necessary competence, the transformation is almost certainly doomed to fail.

Right-first-time and Just-in-time over Working software over comprehensive documentation

Tech-enabled Network of Teams over Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Building a Learning Organisation over Responding to change over following a plan

Another possible cause is that in many companies, from the viewpoint of the many employees, the company has been “transforming” for years. There has been one big company transformation initiative after another, usually tied to some new senior leader. No wonder that the people suffer from change fatigue.