“Broken telephone” doesn’t only happen verbally, we even mess up the message when we write it down! Communicating synchronously is difficult enough, remove time, location, physical presence, verbal from the equation and you have a real mess on your hands. How many of you even write? I mean like, write write, or right write. I don’t mean write emails, tweets, useless insta captions, fake…

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard” This is so often said, I always see a dam poster about it all the time, and it’s kinda annoying. Never has anyone answered this for me, what happens when the talent does work hard Do Hard Workers stand a chance against Talented Hard Workers? What is a hard worker anyway? …

Because i’m smart, I figured this out in my high school essay — I was never much of a student, please someone, other than Gary Vee, relate to this! During 10th grade (3rd year of 5 year high school regiment) I (everyone in my class too..) was tasked with writing an essay. …

During a house party this weekend, I spoke with people about remote work and what they have been doing. You’re not going to like what you hear… A lot of them have not been doing much, work wise anyway. They have been taking care of personal admin, catching up on TV Shows and Movies, exercising and sleeping. But no one spoke about how they took advantage of remote work for their careers! They…

Talk is cheap, and so is culture i’ve found, at many a time, culture is just that… Talk… Culture is not just what a company writes on its website, it is more specifically what it does. This will say much more about the culture than the written word. Who gets…

Personally, now that I started a company and manage employees, I am very sensitive to busyness vs. productivity. And I can clearly identify busyness in myself (and others) and compare it to my productive time (and theirs’). I hate to burst your bubble You are probably a lot more busy than you are productive, even now…

I was working in my co-working space, I use Spaces, but WeWork is awesome too! Anyway, this woman (they/them/she/her) was coughing every 5 minutes, after my immediately frustrated thoughts of how someone can be so selfish (read stupid) to be able to work remotely at a nice office space, and…

When I first raised the idea with my client, a leading bank in Africa, they said ‘No’, just with more words, tainted in corporate-speak. Fast forward 6 weeks, and we are all working remotely and implementing software solutions to digitise the office. But how did I convince them? I didn’t. Covid happened. And we all played…

So How Do You Measure Outcomes? Remote work is a powerful tool to increase productivity and leverage new management practices. One of the best management practices we have put in place in our company and with our clients is The Written Stand Up. We have taken the practice of the daily stand up, a brief 5–15…