sberkun10

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   by sberkun10 12y ago

   Here's a handy guide I wrote for how to learn from your mistakes: http://scottberkun.com/essays/44-how-to-learn-from-your-mist...
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   by sberkun10 12y ago

   The direct answer is most managers have no experience managing remote workers. Certainly that's not the entire story but it's a new way of working and many organizations reject it for its novelty without understanding it's ad
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   by sberkun10 12y ago

   I worked for Mullenweg for a year at WordPress.com to write a book about all of these questions. It documents all the tools I used and what life was like as a remote manager of a development team. http://www.amazon.com/Year-
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   by sberkun10 12y ago

   Absolutely. My point was it has been studied, by anthropologists, for years, but our field has great hubris of inventing everything for ourselves (this hubris has some advantages of course, but when it comes to reusing existing knowledge it
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   by sberkun10 12y ago

   We agree. I wrote: "You have to do careful study to filter out which cultural values remained immutable over time, if any at all. Ask the first ten employees to leave a successful company why they left, and many will answer “the compan