Ali Greene - Making remote management work

Ali Greene is co-founder of Remote Works, an organisational design and consulting firm with a mission to liberate teams from the nine-to-five and teach them how to do their best work anytime, anywhere. Along with Tamara Sanderson, Ali has spent a combined two decades in distributed workplaces, Greene as the former director of people operations at DuckDuckGo and Sanderson as the director of strategic partnerships and corporate development at Automattic. Throughout their joint career history, they’ve worked in varied environments, including big tech (Google), startups (Oyster, LivingSocial), creative agencies (IDEO, Undertone), and management consulting and private equity (Oliver Wyman, Audax Group). 

Remote work has revolutionised how we work. It supercharges productivity and blazes a path to work-life nirvana. It’s no wonder nearly half of employees continue to demand control over where and when they put in their paid hours. So why are businesses now having second thoughts? According to Monster.com’s 2023 Work Watch Report, 33% of employers have changed their minds about adopting virtual-hybrid work models, and 35% have gone full RTO, dragging workers back into the office. But you don’t have to give up your employees’ newfound productivity and happiness for brick and mortar’s status quo, say two acclaimed workplace experts. You simply need to rethink how remote work actually works.

Companies can no longer survive by copying and pasting old office techniques into digital, virtual environments; it’s exhausting, unproductive, and ultimately unsuccessful. Instead, Ali and Tamara feel leaders and managers must reconsider what “being remote” means and drop their remote baggage at the door, Their new book, Remote Works: Managing for Freedom, Flexibility, and Focus is the ultimate playbook for managing remote teams. Combining two decades spent working in virtual corporate environments with interviews with 30-plus leaders from thriving, work-anywhere companies, Ali and Tamara offer tried-and-true remote strategies for businesses large and small.

In this podcast:

  • Ali's top three experiences while traveling.

  • How Ali developed resilience while traveling and working remotely.

  • The future of remote work.

  • How to form and maintain connections while traveling.

  • The importance of having a support system while traveling.

  • The challenges of working remotely and managing a team in different time zones.

  • The benefits of asynchronous communication in remote work.

You can find out more about about Ali at https://www.linkedin.com/in/greeneali/ or purchase the book at remoteworksbook.com.

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