Summary: Reading via email? CLICK HERE to listen NOW! I've long been a fan of 37signals, including being a customer. So, I was thrilled to hear that Jason Fried and Davis Heinemeier Hansson were coming out with a follow-up to their enormously successful book, Rework. So, on today's show, thrilled to welcome co-author David Heinemeier Hansson to join me in discussing their latest work, Remote: Office Not Required... Key discussion topics from our conversation: 1. We discuss why they had to write the book: If you want to hire the best people, you have to shift your operations to this new paradigm. 2. You would think that in this modern world, everyone would understand how to work remotely. Well, tis not the case. "We thought all this knowledge about how to do this was self-evident..." 3. The book talks about two basic ideas: Why you should work remotely, and HOW you should do it. 4. This book just isn't for the office manager on how to hire remote employees...It is for the remote employee beginning to understand that no matter where they live, they can be a part of virtually any organization! 5. ...and more importantly, for the employee to make the case within their OWN organization! 6. The whole point? You don't have to live in the hub of your market space to make an impact in your industry... 7. "I am in Spain as we record this, and you are in the US, and well, it is just not a big deal..." 8. "We are a technology and software company, and we don't have a single employee in Silican Valley, San Francisco, or New York..." 9. The problem isn't technology. The challenge is in changing mindset... 10. Evidence proves that remote work results in better work anyways... The changes you are forced to make working remotely lead to better results in the long run... "Working remotely shines a light on organizational inefficiencies...which you can now fix!" It provides enlightenment for new best practices... 11. Working remotely does make collaboration trickier. DHH shares some ideas on how to deal with that issue of the importance of social cohesion... "We don't have a problem generating ideas. We have a problem identifying which ideas to move forward with..." Learn more about the book here: You can purchase Remote here (affiliate link): And you really should read Rework, which remains my all-time favorite business book: ### To hear from other intrepid souls like David Heinemeier Hansson, please subscribe to my podcast on iTunes. And, leaving a review and customer rating would be appreciated as well! This is episode 97.
