Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus - Softcover

Greene, Ali; Sanderson, Tamara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523003316 ISBN 13: 9781523003310

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023

Synopsis

Two veteran remote managers draw on their pre- and post-COVID experience to offer pragmatic, proven advice for designing remote work environments where everyone thrives. <p/>Since the pandemic began, a staggering 64 million American workers have experienced working full-time from home. In 2020 and 2021, quick-fix solutions and emergency-transition plans allowed organizations to survive with remote work. Now Ali Greene and Tamara Sanderson want to show managers how to design positive, flexible virtual work cultures that will thrive in the long term--because remote work is here to stay. <p/>Drawing on their years of experience working for all-remote companies DuckDuckGo and Automattic (the parent company of WordPress) and as international digital nomads, Greene and Sanderson have written the ultimate design-thinking handbook for managing remote and hybrid teams. The book addresses challenges such as managing conflict, establishing norms, communicating effectively, reframing productivity, and creating an authentic team culture. Using practical, hands-on exercises, they give managers the confidence to design and prototype optimal remote work structures for their teams. <p/>Greene and Sanderson never said the remote work world is easy, but they've seen firsthand that it can be effective and enjoyable. Now it's time for others to reap the benefits.

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About the Author

Ali Greene has been a remote-work leader since 2014. She was previously the Director of People Operations for DuckDuckGo and helped grow the fully distributed team from thirty people to nearly one-hundred over four years; and was the former Head of Culture and Community at Oyster, where she hosted their Distributed Discussions podcast. Ali was named a Remote Accelerator in the 2022 Remote Influencer Report by Remote - a global EOR company and community for remote workers. Ali's mission is to empower people and companies, helping them thrive in making work (and life!) better. <p/>Tamara Sanderson was a remote worker before she knew it had a name with more than 13 years of distributed work experience. She has worked in design at IDEO, in tech at Google and Automattic (WordPress.com), and in finance and strategy at Oliver Wyman and Audax Group. Sanderson teaches product management and design for Duke CE and Northwestern Kellogg's professional education courses. Call her an idealist, but she truly believes that remote work can change the opportunity equation for people when it fully embraces one anothers' autonomy, dignity, and ingenuity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1523003316
• ISBN 13: 9781523003310
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240