In this episode, Jeff Robbins interviews Laïla von Alvensleben at Hanno. We discuss the process of design thinking and the best tools for team collaboration.

We talk about:

• Work collaboration 
• Design thinking
• PPP:  Plans, Progress & Problems 
• Eliminating email
• Best tools for team collaboration
• Advantages of remote work
• Humanizing team collaboration

Jeff Robbins and Laurel Farrer dig into the ways that meetings for remote teams work differently from those at brick-and-mortar companies.

We talk about:

• Remote meetings vs in-person team meetings
• Partial interaction in meetings
• How to prevent meetings from being time-wasters
• Scheduling across time zones
• The need for peripheral communication within remote teams

In this episode, Jeff Robbins interviews Austin Smith & Bridget McNulty of Alley Interactive to discuss the operations of running a fully distributed company. 

• How Alley Interactive runs a 61 employee distributed company
• Is running a remote company an anomaly or will it become the norm?
• How the team uses Slack to build culture within the company
• Buying lunch for the entire remote team
• Incorporating coaches (and not managers) into the workplace
• Creating transparent communication within the team

Robin Zander, Founder and Director of the Responsive Conference

Rodolphe Dutel, Founder and CEO of Remotive 

Darren Buckner, Founder and CEO of Workfrom 

In this episode, Jeff Robbins facilitates a roundtable discussion with Rodolphe Dutel of Remotive,  Darren Buckner of Workfrom,  and Robin Zander of Responsive to discuss the future of remote work. 

We talk about:

• The future of remote work
• Location independent Millennials
• Whether the traditional employee-employer relationship will go away
• Working as an employee vs working as a freelancer

In this episode we interview Ryan Szrama of Commerce Guys. We discuss how Ryan went from being the sole employee of a remote team to the leader of an entire distributed company. 

We talk about:

• Cultural difference in remote team-building
• Team productivity working remotely vs working in an office