| Tip 36 | Being Present |
You have the advantage of being face to face with your leaders and your business customers. Don’t squander the opportunity.
While I was living in Bangalore as CTO of our software development center, I had the unpleasant experience of reporting to a manager who I not only disliked (and who disliked me) but who was in the United States. We had strained, late-night or early-morning phone conversations, made increasingly frustrating by background noise or unintended disconnections. I would write long, descriptive e-mails in an attempt to help close the distance and time zone gap, only to be ignored. And, if I complained about being ignored, I would be criticized for writing long e-mails. It seemed like a no-win situation.
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