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Can you describe in more detail what really strong leadership looks like in a remote work environment?

• maxxxxx 10y ago
  For example someone needs to decide how issues are tracked and define a process. That process then has to be followed by everybody. There can't be exceptions. In general I think remote teams benefit a lot from a central person who has final say and had the ego to push things through. Somebody like Linus for Linux. You can't have people like you see in a lot of companies that need endless meetings to make decisions.
  • k__ 10y ago
    This. I worked in a few remote teams and most had bad leadership. No process or it changed every month or it wasn't really used by anyone etc. No single source of truth. Some people write in slack, some in quip, some per mail, some in trello, some in github... I think people are trying to run remote teams like "local" ones and can't understand that they are different. "People have to sit in one room to be more productive" - "we need water cooler talk to get the word around" - blablabla They just want to be "managers" in title, but not do the work...