Ep 201. Tsedal Neeley: Remote Work Revolution
“The hallmark of remote work success is the ability to self-direct and capitalize on the gift of managing your own work processes.”
Tsedal Neeley
Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, an accomplished scholar and author, and award-winning teacher. Her new book, Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere, could not have arrived at a more auspicious moment. Her previous book, The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations, chronicles the behind-the-scenes globalization process of a company over the course of five years. Tsedal has also published extensively in leading scholarly and practitioner-oriented outlets about virtual work and large scale change. Her HBS case, “Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems”, is one of the most used cases worldwide on the subject of virtual work.
In this episode, Stew talks with Tsedal about the pros and cons of remote work -- for performance, well-being, and relationships in all parts of our lives -- and what we’ve learned about these pushes and pulls during the disorienting world of the pandemic. Drawing on research evidence across a number of fields, Tsedal describes tools any organization or individual can use to learn to thrive in remote work and offers insights about what the future of work will look like. Stew and Tsedal both talked about the great Richard Hackman’s profound influence on their research and teaching.
Here then is an invitation, a challenge, for you, once you’ve listened to the conversation. How can you use relaunching as a tool for improving the effectiveness of a team with which you are involved? Share your reactions to this episode and ideas for future episodes with Stew by writing to him at friedman@wharton.upenn.edu or via LinkedIn.
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