Below the Line
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways
- Remote work utopia is freedom over time
- Empower employees to function in their personal best environment that remote work allows. Focusing on productivity as the priority, regardless of strategy.
- Remote working cultures gain a lot of advantages from asynchronous working conditions
- Executives and management are optimizing for themselves, not for their team when it comes to remote environments
- Leadership often wants to maintain their in-office micromanagement strategies remotely; however, this leads to unnecessary inefficiencies
- If you’re not happy, find a new job. You have leverage due to the unclarity around what is next for working environments.
- Advice to management: “When you don’t have clarity, go get it. Otherwise, you’re going to end up spending your time recruiting.”– Hiten Shah
- Design your work-from-home space for comfort
- Even though there is a looming unknown about what a hybrid working environment will look like, investing in a comfortable and productive WFH setup will be beneficial
- Don’t manage your time, manage your energy
- Constantly reevaluate if your meetings boost or drain your energy; optimize your meetings to be productive, valuable, and inspiring, or don’t schedule them at all
- Optimum problem-solving starts with ‘what is the current and desired state and what changes need to be met’ rather than starting with ‘why and how’
- Good managers identify the problem, reevaluate expectations, and trust that they have a team of experts to solve the problem
- “Never mix the conversation of strategy and the conversation of execution” – James Beshara
- If you mix the two, you will constantly edit down your ambition
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Hiten Shah is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nira. A company that specializes in protecting companies documents from unauthorized access. Hiten has been working remotely for close to 18 years. Today he joins James to talk about The Remote Workspace Utopia. James and Hiten start the episode by giving listeners insight into all the technological gadgets used to help complete daily tasks and meetings remotely. James and Hiten also dive deep into the topic of meetings. Hiten explains the detrimental effects of mixing strategy and execution and why each topic should be discussed separately. To conclude the episode, James and Hiten talk about Communication in the remote workspace and what are the best practices in keeping your team on track.
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About your host, James:
James Beshara is a founder, investor, advisor, author, podcaster, and encourager based in Los Angeles, California. James has created startups for the last 12 years, selling one (Tilt, acquired by Airbnb), and invested in a few multi-billion dollar startups to date. He has spoken at places such as Y-Combinator, Harvard Business School, Stanford University, TechCrunch Disrupt, and has been featured in outlets like the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, and Time Magazine. He’s been featured in Forbes, Time, and Inc Magazine’s “30 Under 30” lists and advises startups all around the world. All of this is his “above the line” version of his background. Hear the other 90% of the story in the intro episode of Below The Line.
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