Teams usually take on the personality of the coach.
Chapter 10Managing Teams
It’s Tuesday morning and you’re catching up with Alice, who manages the search infrastructure team. You’re having a virtual coffee. Y’know, over a video call. You’re interested in how she’s finding her job now that she’s remote.
“How’s it all going anyway? I always remember that your team seemed so close when they were sitting together in the office.”
Alice thinks. “Well, it’s good and bad.”
“What’s good about it?”
“Well, I seem to get way more time to focus on my individual work than I used to in the office. I was always getting interrupted all the time and sometimes it would take me a whole day to get twenty lines of code written.”
“OK, well that’s ...
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