Let’s get better at people management
To use a sports analogy, from 1871 – 2017 over 18,918 have played Major League Baseball. In 146 years of play, in a largely consistent game, only ~50 have hit more than 400 home runs, which is, generally speaking, a Hall of Fame worthy career achievement. That .26% of all players.
In other words, prepare for someone to drop from a Top performer.
Read MoreI’m not going to argue whether having remote employees in 2019 is a good or possible thing. It is. Gaining access to a national, or international, pool of talent focused on your company’s mission is worth the cost in adaptation. If you question that, you’re in the wrong place and, simply put, you are the problem remote workers have been trying to overcome in your organization.
Read MoreRead MoreYou are not managing for any one person, and that includes yourself. You are managing for your team. The team succeeds or the team fails. No one person defines the team and no one person is bigger—or smaller—than the team, and that, again, absolutely includes yourself.
