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The Async Island
If you look back at all the advice in this book, you’ll notice that I recommend a “part-guerrilla, part-advocate” approach to change. With your team, you can be opportunistic and introduce async-first processes and ways of working wherever they make sense. As an advocate, you can use your successes from these experiments to justify a shift for the rest of the organization.
It makes sense to start small. That’s the essence of agility, isn’t it? But in large organizations, it’s difficult for a small team to cling to its subculture for indefinitely. It’s not impossible to have an “async island of excellence”! It’s simply hard.
Unpacking Organizational Inertia
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