How to Be a Better Manager in a Distributed Environment

I think managers are actually the biggest barrier to companies moving up the levels towards Nirvana. As a manager, you also have to keep a closer eye because where you might notice in an office when someone is coming in looking really dejected or sad and low energy. So you start to need to be a bit more attuned for that. And also, if you go fully distributed like level four when you're actually global, so meaning that you're able to tap into the world's talent pool, you have people across 70 countries.