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Leading Distributed and Remote Teams

Your remote team is busy and slow at the same time. Learn the writing, meeting, and decision habits that let people ship across time zones without waiting on you.

  • Advanced
  • 8 lessons
  • 1 h 31 min to complete

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What it covers

What your people will learn.

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Everyone on your distributed team is busy, and the work still moves slowly. That gap is not a people problem. It is a coordination tax you are paying without noticing.

Most remote teams fail because they run an office playbook over Slack: too many live meetings, decisions that stall until everyone is awake, and culture that only happened in hallways that no longer exist. The fix is a set of habits, not more tools.

This course gives you those habits. You learn to write so the whole company can read it, cut every meeting you do not need while protecting the few you do, and make decisions that do not wait for the slowest time zone. It also covers the parts founders get wrong: mapping work across time zones, hiring people who can run without supervision, building culture without a shared room, and knowing the rare moment when flying everyone in is worth it.

Who it's for

Founders: running a remote or hybrid company and tired of being the bottleneck every decision routes through.

Team leads: managing people across time zones who want output without scheduling their whole day around overlap.

Operators: setting up the writing, meeting, and hiring norms that let a distributed team stay fast as it grows.

The lessons

8 lessons, in order.

About 1 h 31 min to complete. Add the course and every lesson is yours to publish as it is, or to edit.

  1. Why Your Distributed Team Feels Slow Even Though Everyone Is Busy10 min
  2. Write Like the Whole Company Will Read It11 min
  3. The Meeting You Do Not Need (And the Three You Do)11 min
  4. Decisions That Do Not Wait for the Whole Team to Wake Up12 min
  5. Hire for Autonomy or Pay the Coordination Tax11 min
  6. The Time-Zone Map Most Founders Get Wrong11 min
  7. Building Culture Without Hallways12 min
  8. When to Break Your Own Rules and Fly Everyone In13 min

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