3 important ingredients to making remote work, well, work:

Team

Tools

and Process.

Team

1. Hire Doers

2. Hire people you can trust

3. Trust the people you hire

4. Hire people who can write

5. Hire people who are ok without a social workplace

 

Tools

 

1. Slack

2. Async

 

3. Trello

4. GitHub

5. LastPass Enterprise

6. Google Docs & Quip

 

7. Zoom

8. HelloSign

9. Help Scout

 

Processes

 

1. Everyone does support

2. A culture of shipping

 

3. Weekly Hangouts

 

4. Pair Buddies

5. Weekly One-on-Ones

 

6. A culture of accountability

 

7. Building culture in person

 

8. Automate anything that can be automated

 

 

Origen: Managing from Afar: How to Run a Remote Team