Remote work consultant and organizational health expert. Articles and insights on leadership, remote work, and business operations.
Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed
The challenges aren’t just technological. They’re managerial.
8 things leaders of remote companies do differently
If you’re thinking of going remote, here’s what successful leaders of remote companies do… Earlier this month, I spoke with a CEO who’s looking to transition her company to become remote in the upcoming year.
Hiring Remote Employees: How You can Avoid Major Challenges
Hiring remote employees + managing them presents many challenges you may not be ready for. Learn what they are & how you can overcome them
Working from Home and Phatic Communication
Working from home, being what’s called a remote worker, is a really fascinating frontier of Work. It’s fascinating both because as a paradigm, it creates new challenges, and it also mak…
The Real Story Of How I Sold Two Startups, The Chaos Afterwards, And What’s Next – The Health Care Blog
Today we’re starting a series of more personal stories, looking at what makes interesting people in health care tick. Alex Carmichael is a rare multiple time CEO in health technology, and she has a very interesting tale to tell–Matthew Holt
The Remote Manifesto
View the GitLab remote working manifesto and the multitude of life-balance benefits it allows our employees to enjoy. Learn more here!
The surprising traits of good remote leaders
Strong in-person leadership skills don’t necessarily translate to being a good virtual leader. Instead, organisation and competency reign supreme.
A Decade of Remote Work
Intro While still in college (go Broncos!), I teamed up with Alex (@slevenbits) to create a startup. We were young, inexperienced and naive. Our first …
How to manage a remote team | Zapier
If you want some ideas on how one team has set up their team to be successful at remote work, then stick around. This chapter is for you. Read more.
The best way to work remotely: 8 proven strategies for better remote work
After years of working from coffee shops and couches, there's one thing I'm certain of: working remotely is hard. Incredibly hard. On paper, it sounds all rainbows and unicorns—you get to choose your own hours, you don't need to deal with a boss looming over your shoulder, and you can...
How People Work, Live! ... with Jim Ray
The best career advice I've received - Human Who Codes
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How to Make Remote Work: Part Two, Zulip
How I've learned to be productive working from home. I'll write a second guide about how I think about remote work as a manager and the processes Monadical have put into place to make things work for us.
Remote product management: challenges and opportunities
Even though more and more companies are getting comfortable with remote work, the field of product management still seems to push back…
Working remotely, coworking spaces, and mental health - bitquabit
This should be a hard blog post to write–after all, it’s the one where I openly admit I had an emotional breakdown and saw a mental health professional–but it’s actually easy. And it’s easy because it has a good ending: facing long odds and a frustrating situation, I ended up turning everything around and getting a place where I love my job and I’m a happy person again.
Remote Teams
I was recently tagged into a conversation on Twitter. The thread started with this summary of findings about open plan offices:
