Show notes
In today's podcast, Pilar talks to Matt Rogish, CEO of Reactive Opps, the consulting arm of RailsMachine. We talk about how he works with a distributed team and we chat about Results Only Work Environment (ROWE).
00:30 Pilar talks about the episode of Podcasters Roundtable on she took part in, on Co-hosting and the parallels with co-hosting a podcast and other collaboration ventures.
04:40 Should we still be paying people per hour, instead of per job done? The ongoing dilemma... How do we know whether people are working? Do more hours mean better work? She mentions her blog post Virtual Work is Already Broken
10:02 Contact links and Virtual not Distant the course for managers and leaders of virtual teams is now endorsed by the Institute of Leadership and Management in the UK
Most companies are now distributed in practice.
My job as CEO is mainly to support the team.
"Managing by side-effect" as opposed to focusing on results, which is not always easy.
Why Best Buy abandoned ROWE
Goodbye to flexible work at Best Buy (HBR)
"Everything around you that you call life, was built by people who are no smarter than you". Steve Jobs.

