Leadership · Library course

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
  • 21 lessons
  • 56 min to complete

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What it covers

What your people will learn.

  • Leadership

Your team is busy and the work still moves slowly. The gap between those two is waiting, and most of it comes from running an office playbook across six time zones.

The reflexes that worked in one room turn expensive at distance. A quick huddle becomes a meeting somebody takes at ten at night. A walk over to someone's desk becomes a question that waits a day for an answer, and a decision that needed an afternoon takes most of a week. None of that waiting shows up on a calendar.

This course replaces the habits rather than the tools. You write decisions so they close themselves on a deadline, cut the meetings that are memos in disguise, define roles that do not need your presence to move, and build the few repeating rituals that do the work the hallway used to do for free.

Who it's for

Founders: running a distributed or hybrid company and tired of being the person every decision waits on.

Team leads: managing across time zones and wanting output without building their day around the overlap window.

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

The lessons

21 lessons, in order.

About 56 min to complete. Add the course and every lesson is yours to publish as it is, or to edit.

  1. The Synchronous Default1 min
  2. The Four Parts of a Decision Memo2 min
  3. Silence Is a Decision1 min
  4. Fix Five Stuck Memos6 min
  5. Get Priya's Trial Proposal Moving4 min
  6. Three Meetings Worth the Time2 min
  7. Route the Decision Before You Write It1 min
  8. Pick the Clock and Keep It2 min
  9. The Pricing Decision Lands Friday4 min
  10. Route Priya's Billing Contract4 min
  11. Autonomy Distance1 min
  12. Write the Latitude Into the Role2 min
  13. Explain Autonomy Distance3 min
  14. Your Overlap Is a Budget1 min
  15. The Daily Handoff1 min
  16. Six Meetings Against the Map8 min
  17. Give Priya Room to Decide4 min
  18. Rituals Replace the Hallway1 min
  19. Write Next Friday's Letter2 min
  20. Four Reasons to Fly People In2 min
  21. Answer Priya's Worry About Bangalore4 min

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