There’s a particular kind of chaos that sets in around day three of managing a remotely distributed team.
You ping your designer in Istanbul at 8 AM your time. She’s already wrapped up for the day. Your developer in Portland won’t be online for another four hours. Your content strategist in Austin just sent eleven voice memos – all of them important, none of them short. And you’re sitting there, the supposed orchestrator of this whole operation, wondering how anyone gets anything done when everyone’s clocks are pointing in different directions.
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