On Tuesday I hosted a @ondeck #ODCC1 community session about & #39;Remote Company Building& #39;

Topics:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📘" title="Blaues Buch" aria-label="Emoji: Blaues Buch"> Guiding Principles
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🖥️" title="Desktop-Computer" aria-label="Emoji: Desktop-Computer"> Use Cases
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧰" title="Toolbox" aria-label="Emoji: Toolbox"> Tools

This thread is a walk through the presentation https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">

Our company - Perengo Inc - was remote from day 1.

Founders in Bay Area & D.C.
Team in Germany and Poland

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🕰️" title="Kamin-Uhr" aria-label="Emoji: Kamin-Uhr"> Time difference of 9 hours

Grew team from 0 to 15 employees.

Post-acquisition (2019) remained remote as separate business unit and doubled headcount.

Most important principle of remote management:

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👉" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach rechts"> Optimize for Single-Player Mode https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👈" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach links" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach links">

> Provide direction for your team
> Give access to necessary tools and info
> Enable your team to get work done on their own

h/t @andreasklinger for popularizing this idea

Businesses can be analyzed across 2 dimensions

1) Location: Co-located vs. Distributed
2) Synchronicity of Work: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Remote first https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🏝️" title="Einsame Insel" aria-label="Emoji: Einsame Insel"> orgs are usually distributed + async

h/t @leonardofed

No need to reinvent the wheel.

Learn from the best:
@gitlab - Best employee handbook in the game
@buffer - Best org transparency via blog
@zapier - Best guide to remote work

Also, follow @darrenmurph @chris_herd @andreasklinger

Our guiding principles:

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https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⚡" title="Hochspannungszeichen" aria-label="Emoji: Hochspannungszeichen"> A.C.D.C.
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🌹" title="Rose" aria-label="Emoji: Rose"> R.O.S.A.

Detailed description in the imagehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten">

Communication is the life blood of any organization

View through OODA Loop:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔍" title="Nach links zeigende Lupe" aria-label="Emoji: Nach links zeigende Lupe"> Observe: Metrics; Sales
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="📊" title="Balkendiagramm" aria-label="Emoji: Balkendiagramm"> Orient: MKTG
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✅" title="Fettes weißes Häkchen" aria-label="Emoji: Fettes weißes Häkchen"> Decide: Management
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥊" title="Boxhandschuh" aria-label="Emoji: Boxhandschuh"> Act: Product; Sales

If information is siloed, you cannot go through the adaptation cycles as a collective org.

Follow @commandodev

Different types of communication require different channels

Think of comms along 2 dimensions:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔊" title="Lautsprecher mit drei Schallwellen" aria-label="Emoji: Lautsprecher mit drei Schallwellen"> Reach: 1 vs. N
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👀" title="Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Augen"> Context: Sync (= immediate feedback needed) vs. Async (= self-paced)

* Transactional > Slack
* Evergreen (solid-state) > Wiki; Notion

Build your comms culture deliberately

To & #39;optimize for single player mode& #39; we reduced meetings to a minimum.

The only all-hands meeting was a bi-weekly sync.

Self-org syncs between collaborators and within teams.

Other information relayed via written async comms.

I have written in more detail about our business-specific workflows in this blog post https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten"> https://www.artlapinsch.com/remote-lessons/ ">https://www.artlapinsch.com/remote-le...

I have written in more detail about communication for remote companies in this blog post https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten"> (Part 1 of a series of posts) https://www.artlapinsch.com/remote-communication-ooda/">https://www.artlapinsch.com/remote-co...

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