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The Async Leadership Mindset
It’s time to shift focus from practitioners and individual contributors to leaders and managers. Asynchronous collaboration benefits from an async-first leadership mindset. Without such leadership, the team can succumb to organizational inertia and its own status quo.
What does it mean to build an async-first leadership mindset? Allow me to explain.
The Tyranny of “The Way”
Over the last few years, when I’ve spoken to managers and leaders about asynchronous work, I’ve received a variety of responses. If they’re remote-work naysayers, then there’s an obvious skepticism. It’s hard to convince tenured professionals with deeply held biases against remote work, so let’s set that problem aside.
The interesting challenge ...
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