🌱 No, We won't have a video call for that!
Poor communication is the worst impact on productivity
Habitually externalize information.
Chat only with immediate, interactive feedback is necessary.
No matter whether it is your intention or not, they will feel compelled to answer, relatively promptly (the only exception is when you’ve done this so often that you have conditioned your colleagues to ignore you — congratulations).
Don’t send naked pings.
How to outline meeting notes:
- title
- date, time, attendees
- summary
- discussions points
- action items
Once you do meetings right, you no longer need most of them
Video calls are good for getting nonverbal emotion across. Good to judge moods and moral.
To brief a group of people:
- situation
- mission
- execution
- logistics
- communications
Calls out GTD
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drop
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delegate
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defer
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do
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Distributed teams are better than localized teams — not because they’re distributed, but because they’re asynchronous.
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Avoid anything that makes a distributed team run synchronously.
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Use less chat.
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Have fewer meetings.
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Write. Things. Down.