Show notes
Today's episode consists entirely of Pilar and Lisette's virtual coffee and they talk about the best things and the worst things about working in virtual teams. We have a few updates, but not too many. We talk about our online co-working space Virtual Team Talk, Sqwiggle closing down, should you take photos, how Oleg Konovalov sent us his book Organisational Anatomy: A Manager's Guide to a Healthy Organisation (Towards the Twenty-First Century Organization) and Lisette is reading the biography Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future, Lisette mentions this interview with the guys from RLoop. http://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/83-a-self-organized-team-of-remote-redditors-competing-for-spacex-hyperloop/ You never know who's listening... To join Saros Research, use this link: https://www.sarosresearch.com/participate/join-saros-research/?id=100243 19:05 Updates seamlessly evolve into the main body of our conversation. We don't need permission to do a lot of stuff in virtual teams - we can self-organise, interact with people in other parts of the organisation... Flattening of the hierarchies. But this also has its down side... We tend to over-communicate. Our oh-so-different communication styles. Retrospective and reviewing our team process: the most important thing is to have the conversation. Rules?????? Freedom and cost - two ups! Freedom increases motivation. Pilar refers to this article Stop Motivating Your Employees! Tele-pressure and techno-stress! The pressures shift - from management to peers.