Remote Works Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus

The future of work is here. You can no longer survive by copying and pasting old office techniques into a digital environment; it’s exhausting, unproductive, and unsuccessful. There is a better way! Are you ready to rethink everything you know about how remote works?

Drawing on their years of experience working at remote companies DuckDuckGo and Automattic, plus dozens of interviews with leading experts, Ali Greene and Tamara Sanderson have written the ultimate playbook for managing remote teams.

This book addresses challenges such as communicating effectively (with fewer meetings!), eliminating frustration over what tools to use, establishing team norms, and focusing on getting things done. You will learn how to work best remotely and create a workplace designed for freedom, flexibility, and focus.

For decades, we’ve planned our lives around our work. Now it’s time to intentionally design work to fit our lives.

Ali Greene is a full-time digital nomad, logistics guru, consultant, and remote-work expert. She is the founder of Cohana, whose mission is to inspire teams to create efficient and innovative frameworks for the future of work. Previously, she was the director of people operations for DuckDuckGo and helped grow the fully distributed team from thirty people to nearly one hundred in four years.
 
Tamara Sanderson is a consultant and remote-work enthusiast with more than twelve years of distributed work experience. She has worked in design at IDEO, in tech at Google and Automattic, and in finance and operations at Oliver Wyman and Audax Group. Sanderson teaches product strategy and design for Duke Corporate Education, Northwestern Kellogg Degree Enhancement Program, Stoa School, and Jolt.io. She has been featured in Vogue, Bustle, Wired, Consulting Magazine, e27, and more.

Introduction: README—A Guide to Remote Works 
1. Remote State of Mind 
2. Manager Archetypes 
3. Managing Your Remote Employee 
4. Creating a Team Charter 
5. Your Digital House 
6. Getting Things Done 
7. The Remote Blueprint 
8. ABC of Remote Communication