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Running Remote: Master the Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Remote-Work Pioneers
Learn success secrets from original remote work pioneers on the mindset and strategies they developed to build and grow successful organizations from the ground up.
With the unprecedented rise in remote work due to the pandemic, many businesses have struggled with how to effectively transition to a distributed format. Meanwhile, companies who had always been remote-first had a unique advantage: a highly scalable set of work processes, a unique communication style, and the proper "async mindset" required to succeed without an office.
This groundbreaking guide unlocks the secrets and the lessons discovered by those pioneer entrepreneurs and founders who have figured out how to harness the async mindset and grow their businesses remotely in the most the seamless, freeing, and cost-effective ways.
Once you accept and master some fundamental differences, remote work can fuel higher productivity, eliminate time-wasting meetings and treacherous commutes, and strip away the ugly politics that often undermine the most talented employees. It also leads to great cultural inclusivity and richer cultural exchange.
Running Remote is for ventures of all stripes-companies small and large, one-person operations, mom-and-pop shops, and global mega-corporations. The lessons herein are as valuable for on-premises organizations as they are for the tech worker.
Readers will:
Master the fundamentals of the async mindset by exploring three overarching principles-deliberate overcommunication, democratized workflow, and detailed metrics.Learn nuts-and-bolts techniques and real-life lessons from remote work trailblazers who built successful all-remote organizations prior to the pandemic.Gain a better understanding of why hiring, on-ramping, and managing in a remote context is totally different-again with methods and first-hand stories from the founders and leaders that did it first.Learn how moving to a remote business model impacts traditional management and work processes.
With the unprecedented rise in remote work due to the pandemic, many businesses have struggled with how to effectively transition to a distributed format. Meanwhile, companies who had always been remote-first had a unique advantage: a highly scalable set of work processes, a unique communication style, and the proper "async mindset" required to succeed without an office.
This groundbreaking guide unlocks the secrets and the lessons discovered by those pioneer entrepreneurs and founders who have figured out how to harness the async mindset and grow their businesses remotely in the most the seamless, freeing, and cost-effective ways.
Once you accept and master some fundamental differences, remote work can fuel higher productivity, eliminate time-wasting meetings and treacherous commutes, and strip away the ugly politics that often undermine the most talented employees. It also leads to great cultural inclusivity and richer cultural exchange.
Running Remote is for ventures of all stripes-companies small and large, one-person operations, mom-and-pop shops, and global mega-corporations. The lessons herein are as valuable for on-premises organizations as they are for the tech worker.
Readers will:
Master the fundamentals of the async mindset by exploring three overarching principles-deliberate overcommunication, democratized workflow, and detailed metrics.Learn nuts-and-bolts techniques and real-life lessons from remote work trailblazers who built successful all-remote organizations prior to the pandemic.Gain a better understanding of why hiring, on-ramping, and managing in a remote context is totally different-again with methods and first-hand stories from the founders and leaders that did it first.Learn how moving to a remote business model impacts traditional management and work processes.
Readers Top Reviews
Mark MancaoChase
Years in the making, this book has arrived just in time. This is especially true for my organization that recently transitioned from being remote-forced during the pandemic to being remote-first forever. We are just starting to build our arsenal of asynch tools and practices. Truthfully, it’s a slog, but we know it is what we must do, especially as team members start moving to different time zones. Running Remote has collected the wisdom from experienced leaders and has shared it in a way that motivates me to push through. This is required reading as far as I’m concerned. Everyone on my team is getting a copy. I also bought the audiobook on Audible so I can absorb it while running errands!
Jordan CarrollMar
In a world where remote work has yet to become standardized in terms, policy, and vision -- this book provides MUCH NEEDED clarity. This book is ahead of its time, and anyone who gets ahold of it now will be years ahead of those who aren't. The concepts are coming from the best and brightest innovators in remote work and being in the industry myself, I couldn't be more excited for the evangelism!!
Bram P.Jordan Car
I have been interested for a few years about remote work but this book helped me understand that this might be actually one of the biggest changes in human history. This is a civilizational shift and thats why this book is so important. 5 stars!!! I haven't blown my mind in a while.
JonathanBram P.Jo
Running Remote hits the async nail on the head. Liam and Rob put out an amazing collection of stories and lessons here, woven together with a thoughtful narrative and advice it’s obvious has been earned through years of remote leadership. Awesome book to add to your shelf and certainly helpful to anyone considering the remote work transition for their team, or for those actively async but just trying to do it better.
GajanJonathanBram
More than just working remotely, it is a guide to shifting your working default toward asynchronous communication. It's about restructuring the way you structure, perform, and monitor work that doesn't require people to be constantly interrupting each other. Eye-opening. The authors are pragmatic, this doesn't eliminate the need to talk to colleagues, it just changes the default so that you use async for most tasks, and you only use meetings for tasks that actually need them. I implemented a bunch of their changes, particularly around providing more and better task information, and documentation. A couple of days in, and it is already paying dividends. Seems so obvious in retrospect! Highly recommended.
