Effective Remote Work

Supercharging the Scale Factor

We’ve just spent a lot of time seeing all of the ways in which managers can make themselves less effective by not adapting to remote work. What a downer! Now, let’s bring back the positivity and see a number of ways in which a manager can supercharge their scale factor and increase their effectiveness in a remote setting.

Write Once, Run Anywhere

Engineers of a certain vintage will remember the 1995 slogan created by Sun Microsystems to highlight the cross-platform nature of Java: Write once, run anywhere.^[61] Any device could run the Java Virtual Machine, which would in turn allow any Java program to run on any device. So Java programmers would only need to write one version of their program, and the execution ...