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Leadership
4 articles
Communication Playbooks for Distributed Teams
Three C-Suite playbooks for communication on virtual teams. Jeff Bezos on written memos and two-way doors, Satya Nadella on culture-first change, Andy Grove on protecting the team's time. What each leader actually said, where they said it, and what it means for distributed teams today.
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Culture and Belonging at a Distance
Building team culture when people have never met in person. GitLab's all-remote-from-day-1 handbook, Andy Grove's framework for organizational transformation, Satya Nadella's culture-as-operating-system, and Sheryl Sandberg's argument that inclusion is a strategic asset.
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Hiring and Onboarding for Distributed Teams
The operating system that makes distributed teams work. Patty McCord at Netflix on hiring fully-formed adults, Brian Chesky at Airbnb on most-rigid-equals-most-flexible, Kim Scott's Radical Candor feedback model, Andy Grove's OKRs, and why most performance review systems fail.
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Trust and Autonomy in Remote Teams
The results-only work playbook from Reed Hastings at Netflix, Tobi Lütke at Shopify, Jason Fried at Basecamp, and the early Google team. The principle is the same: most rules exist because someone failed to hire well.
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