Category: Distributed
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Intentional Random Connections
Serendipitous connections, like discovering a shared interest with someone while you’re in line for coffee, look slightly different in distributed organizations. So how do you co-create company wide connection? I joined the wonderful team at Remote:AF to talk about how we created space for this at Automattic, check it out and let me know what…
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To Async or Sync?
I’m really hopeful about the potential of asynchronous collaboration (Ie. for enabling deeper thinking or flexibility across timezones). I’m also very curious about the conditions necessary for it to be productive. I created the following model to support leaders and facilitators in choosing between these 2 modes of collaboration based on the scenario characteristics. I’m…
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Go Gently Before We Lose Something
I’ve been chatting to a lot of new founders creating digital collaboration tools – innovation is booming. But there’s a common theme that’s niggling me… and while a part of me knows that a new era of working is here, I’m increasingly conscious of what we stand to lose AND wondering if we’ll ever be…