WHY WE THINK A FLEXIBLE AND DISTRIBUTED WORKING MODEL IS MORE AND MORE IMPORTANT

shortage of skilled workers, digitalisation and good income in IT makes flexible and distributed working models more and more important

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1. WHY WE THINK A FLEXIBLE AND DISTRIBUTED
   WORKING MODEL IS MORE AND MORE IMPORTANT
   @LEIFHANACK
   

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2. BECAUSE OF YOU!
   - YOU ARE RARE

   - YOU (!) BALANCE YOUR WORK AND 

   YOUR LIFE

   - NO MORE 9 TO 5

   - NO MORE 'WORK UNTIL YOU DIE'

   - WORK SHOULD MAKE SENSE 

   AND FUN

   photo by quinn dombrowski
   

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4. INGREDIENTS
   HOW IT TASTES IS UP TO YOU
   photo by mario spann
   

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5. MAIN INGREDIENTS
   ▸ transparency and vision
   ▸ principles, not rules
   ▸ quick decision making
   ▸ organising in circles
   

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6. TRANSPARENCY 

   AND VISIONAND STRATEGY
   

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7. PRINCIPLES, 

   NOT RULES
   

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8. DECISION MAKING

   ≠

   BRAINSTORMING
   

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9. NO DECISION IS
   PERFECT NOR
   UNCHANGEABLE
   TRY CONSENT - THE ABSENCE OF OBJECTIONS
   EVERYONE CAN LIVE WITH IT

   GOOD ENOUGH FOR NOW
   SAVE ENOUGH TO TRY
   photo by matthias hiltner
   

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10. BRAVO
    CHARLIE
    ALPHA
    ECHO
    DELTA
    AUTONOMOUS
    CROSS-
    FUNCTIONAL
    MARKET
    SERVE, 

    NOT RULE
    ORGANISING 

    IN CIRCLES
    PERIPHERY
    CENTER
    

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11. INSIDE A 

    TEAM OR UNIT

    AS WELL!
    photo by alberto martín
    - MINIMISE COMMUNICATION 

    - MINIMISE DEPENDENCIES
    - MAXIMISE AUTONOMY 

    - CROSS-FUNCTIONAL ≠ 

    EVERYONE EVERYTHING

    - FLEXIBLE & EVOLVING STRUCTURES

    photo by alberto martín
    

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12. NOW 

    WE CAN GO
    DISTRIBUTED
    photo by home thods
    

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13. VPN MUST WORK
    

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14. ENCOURAGE
    REMOTE WORK
    

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15. TRANSPARENT
    COMMUNICATION
    WITH SLACK
    

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16. ASYNC STANDUPS
    

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17. ASYNC DECISION
    MAKING
    

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18. NOW IT IS YOUR TURN
    photo by caleb wagoner
    

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19. WHERE TO START?
    ▸ check if you're open and transparent enough
    ▸ check if rules can be replaced by principles
    ▸ validate your decision making process
    ▸ validate your organisational structure
    ▸ start changing things AND learn
    

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20. REFERENCES
    ▸ Niels Pflaeging - Organize for complexity (en)
    ▸ Sociocracy 3.0 (en)
    ▸ one family - Hypoport Prinzipien (de)
    ▸ Leif Hanack - Verteilte Verantwortung mittels
    soziokratischen Mitteln wahrnehmen (de)
    ▸ Consent versus Consensus (en)
    ▸ Martin Fowler - Remote versus Co-located Work (en)
    

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21. HELP ME TO
    IMPROVE
    LEIF.HANACK AT
    EUROPACE.DE
    photo by irapuan martinez
    THE GOOD,
    THE BAD,
    THE UGLY
    

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22. LICENSE
    The material is licensed to you under a Creative Commons Free Culture License.
    Basically this license grants you
    ‣ Freedom to use the work itself.
    ‣ Freedom to use the information in the work for any purpose, even commercially.
    ‣ Freedom to share copies of the work for any purpose, even commercially.
    ‣ Freedom to make and share remixes and other derivatives for any purpose.
    You need to attribute the original creator of the materials, and all derivatives need to
    be shared under the same license. There’s more on the topic of free culture on the
    Creative Commons website.
    ©2017 by Leif Hanack. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
    

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