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> Yeah, so much is recent ... For the general public it seems like a new thing. But many of us have been working fully or mostly remote for decades, used to be
by netjiro 4y ago
> Yeah, so much is recent ...
For the general public it seems like a new thing. But many of us have been working fully or mostly remote for decades, used to be called distributed. There is a lot of knowledge out there for anyone who want to learn, extensively tested in many organisations. The gitlab stuff, linked above, is one example.
I've been building and running globally distributed asynchronous organisations for 20y, and I've learnt some of my tips/tricks/tools from people doing it very successfully for many years before I started.
My best tips: ditch the traditional management dogma, it's quite inefficient anyway. Trust your people. Make sure they have the information and training they need. Flatten out. Push for transparency. Go async! Especially for decision making.
For me it has been exceptionally rare that people are less productive when they are given control over their own circumstances.