Work From Anywhere

INTRODUCTION

Having teams operate in a ‘distributed’ or work from anywhere (WFA) fashion is not new, and nor was it solely born from the global pandemic. For years and even decades, many teams have managed to facilitate a functioning work environment remotely; some spectacularly well.

A few rare companies with valuations now in the billions have been distributed for decades, or at least since the advent of the internet. Yet the sheer impact of COVID‐19 and the overnight call to remote and distributed work practices reshaped workplace behaviour and standards so significantly that, in time, we may speak historically about the events of 2020 as being as disruptive for workforces as the invention of the printing press and the personal computer.

Exacerbating this significant change is the sheer speed of change. The suddenness of overnight isolation‐based crisis responses from organisations left many leaders, teams and businesses floundering; many are still battling with leadership and cultural skills that were built on face‐to‐face connection rather than virtual. But help is here.

Regardless of whether you're still struggling to adapt, you've had some wins but feel a lot of unrealised potential is still there to tap into, or you're flying and just looking for a few handy tips to take your game to an elite level, this book will make for enlightening reading. Be assured, the framework and methodology that underpin this book are grounded not only in behavioural and psychological sciences, ...