DENVER–I can smell vomit on my dress shirt as I write this essay.
Back to that in a minute.
A counterpoint is urgently needed to “We’re Kidding Ourselves That Workers Perform Well From Home.” [nytimes.com]
Don’t Come Back to Work
Don’t come back to work.
Instead, move forward in leading your company and managing your career by embracing remote work, at least to some extent.
Even though ghSMART has been remote-only for 26 years now, it never fully registered with me how enthusiastic I am about remote work until I started hearing that many companies are forcing workers to come back into offices every day.
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The days of “management by walking around” are over.
Business books from the 1980s encouraged managers to wander around the office, chit-chat with colleagues, and learn valuable information at the water cooler. Today, leaders of all size organizations find themselves managing people remotely.
In recent weeks, I have discussed this with the CEO of a global public company, the student body president of an Ivy League university, the Executive Director of a not-for-profit that builds bridges in developing economies, the founder of a protein bar startup, a U.S. Senator (who manages D.C. and hometown office staffs), and the head of a private equity firm with offices in several countries.